Peter Jennings Quotes

I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.

Peter Jennings

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• There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Time
  • Beauty
  • Role

• Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Dumb
  • Noble
  • Desk

• Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Trying
  • Win
  • Forest

• Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Life
  • Poverty

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • You
  • Way
  • Wrong

• I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Everything
  • Genre
  • Almost

• I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Political
  • Path
  • Economic

• My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • World
  • Mother

• When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • You
  • Look
  • Dirty

• You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• I have a very positive outlook.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Positive
  • Very
  • Outlook

• Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Single

• People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Movie
  • House

• We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Fate
  • Become
  • Prophets

• I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Happy
  • Thought
  • Second

• I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • God
  • Believe
  • Long

• 'He’s young,' she said.'We’ve all been guilty of that sin,' said Alvin. 'And some never get over it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Guilty

• To let go of judgment does not mean that you don’t see what they do. It means that you recognize their behavior as a form of conditioning, and you see it and accept it as that. You don’t construct an identity out of it for that person.That liberates you as well as the other person from identification with conditioning, with form, with mind.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Identity

• I love performing. I love the people. I sound like Liza Minnelli right now, don't I?

  

  Bob Saget
  • People

• If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Reading

• Never bored on a hoverboard.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Bored

• What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Technology

• I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.

  

  Peter Jennings