Thomas Pickering Famous Quotes
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
Thomas Pickering Quotations
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Eric Hoffer
"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."
Bertrand Russell
"Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage."
Charles Luckman
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
"In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral."
George Santayana
Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.
Anon
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none."
Thomas Jefferson
"Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second."
Helen Hunt Jackson
"If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse."
Alvin Toffler
After dark all cats are leopards. Zuni
American Indian Proverb