"Death will never be pretty - its sights……" — Nancy Gibbs
"Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting."
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104 Quotes by Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Gibbs has 104 quotes on this site.
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For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
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If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.
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Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us…
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Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who…
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If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the…
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Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on…
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You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him…
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Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton…
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Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and…
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Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just…
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In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version…
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You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he…
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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
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An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your…
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Calgary wins for my coldest New Year's Eve gig. That's when I learned Fahrenheit and Celsius cross at 40 below.…
— Elayne Boosler
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It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people…
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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks…
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of…
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They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used…
— Anne Campbell
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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
— Stokely Carmichael
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It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying...…
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