Nancy Gibbs Quotes

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• For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
• If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.
• Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense,…
• Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to…
• If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have…
• Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent…
• You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go on and get…
• Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from some ultranationalists and…
• Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're looking…
• Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just the pattern of former presidents;…
• In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself.…
• You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.
• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where…
• The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident.
• Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way…
• On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
• While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret that its inclusion…
• Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.
• Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and…
• If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and…

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