Peter Marshall Quotes

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Peter Marshall

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• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Sense

• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Vision

• Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • May
  • You
  • Need

• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Man
  • Wise

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• Put simply, my vision for AOL is to build the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network while we grow the size and engagement of our worldwide audience.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Vision
  • Grow
  • Advertising

• The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.

  

  Haniel Long
  • May
  • History
  • Human

• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • May
  • Problem

• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Me
  • Forever

• Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because, if you have a problem with women, drugs, or whatever the case may be, the only person that can fix that problem is God.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • God
  • Women
  • May

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • May
  • Interesting

• When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Book
  • Eyes
  • Meaning

• You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

  

  Veronica Lake
  • Vision
  • Eye
  • Talent

• Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • American
  • Religion

• My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Fall

• You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a 'thing'; he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • God
  • Children

• The trick of Afrobeats is it doesn't just move your upper body, it moves your hips as well, and I think that's what people have been missing in popular music for a while. I think that's what people need around the world.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

  

  Marshall Herskovitz

• I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. I've tried to take a chance with every film I've done - I've never done it the easy way, and I think that's because that's what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Trying

• Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

  

  Peter Marshall
  • May
  • Fall
  • Vision