Kingman Brewster Jr Famous Quotes
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
"Maybe you are the cool generation ... If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
"I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't talking."
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
Kingman Brewster Jr Quotations
"It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine."
Paul Gruchow
"The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
Rebecca West
"I think there probably should be a rule that if you're talking about how many loaves of bread a bullet will go through, it's understood that you mean lengthwise loaves. Otherwise, it makes no sense."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso
"If all the world's a stage, then where is the audience sitting"
Unknown
The postman always rings twice.
James M Cain
"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."
Samuel Johnson
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
Hesiod
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Louis L Mann
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Gary Wills