"Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function……" — Peggy Noonan
"Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature."
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63 Quotes by Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan has 63 quotes on this site.
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Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves.…
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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
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TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.
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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best…
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Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and…
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Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea…
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We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism,…
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Read good, big important things.
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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
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I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog,…
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Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of…
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I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat…
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It is only when we love God and Christ with all of our hearts, souls, and minds that we are…
— M. Russell Ballard
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In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
— John Vianney
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The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter…
— Richard Crossman
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The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one…
— Ilan Ramon
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Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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As the Christmas season envelops us with all its glory, may we, as did the Wise Men, seek a bright,…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and…
— Napoleon Hill
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God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my…
— Edmond Jabes
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Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when…
— Marcel Proust
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For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at…
— Haruki Murakami
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