Anne O'Hare McCormick Quotes

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

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• The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Church
  • Thought

• On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • War
  • Morning
  • Fire

• An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Impact

• Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • War
  • Picture
  • Civil War

• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • War
  • Better

• It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Important
  • Power
  • Race

• I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Remember
  • War
  • Lost

• There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • World
  • Women
  • Power

• I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Power
  • Control
  • Morning

• I don't think people understand the power of social media or our phones.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Power
  • Social Media

• The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

  

  Zendaya
  • Power
  • Way
  • Back

• Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Life
  • Power
  • Present

• Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Power
  • Strength
  • Weakness

• U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.

  

  Jack Keane
  • War
  • Harmony
  • Conflict

• I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• One of the most important things the United States did in the aftermath of World War II was to help returning veterans with housing. In 1945, in my home state of Oregon, we established the Veterans Home Loan Program, which for over 60 years has provided more than 300,000 loans. This has changed the lives of Oregon veterans and revitalized communities.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • World
  • Important
  • Home

• I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • War
  • Gun
  • Female

• When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.

  

  Jim Talent

• About 10 minutes [into the dinner] my sister texted me and said, "Maria, I just wanted to let you know that you're on TV live. You're front and center." I thought, 'Oh God, I'm right behind Donald Trump and in the camera shot. After that I stopped moving. I just sat there. It was funny. I was delighted that people noticed my white gloves. It was a white tie dinner, for the dais you had to be in white tie. If I can't channel my best Sophia Loren glamour for a white tie affair, when can I? I thought it was an excellent opportunity to wear the white gloves.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• I thought that we all were afraid of death, but I've talked to my wife and other people, and they're not afraid of death the way I am. I find that really confusing. I don't like the idea of nothingness - that's terrifying to me.

  

  Dan Trachtenberg
  • People
  • Death
  • Wife

• I was a mathematics major and really into math.

  

  Mary Callahan Erdoes
  • Really
  • Math
  • Mathematics

• Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

  

  Anne O'Hare McCormick
  • Power
  • War
  • Make