All Peggy Noonan Quotes
- Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape… Alcohol
- Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. Great
- TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains. Birth
- If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to… Along
- Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity. Beautiful
- Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new… All
- We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the… Afraid
- Read good, big important things. Big
- Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are. All
- I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when… Attempt
- Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're… Course
- I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. Beyond
- Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place,… Beware
- Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. Combination
- The tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had… Anymore
- The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they did. This is… Americans
- You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: 'that world is gone.' America
- We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves. Control
- But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it. Any
- What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you… Exhaustion