"Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion.……" — Nancy Gibbs
"Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny."
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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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More Catastrophe Quotes
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
— Theodor Adorno
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Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all…
— Tony Campolo
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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them.…
— Noam Chomsky
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Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
— Noam Chomsky
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe…
— Leonard Cohen
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As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to…
— Eric Alterman
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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
— Jean Anouilh
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves…
— John Playfair
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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