Anne O'Hare McCormick quote: "The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation, and the effect of decisiveness itself 'makes things go' and creates confidence"

Whatever punishment does to a nation it does not induce a sense of guilt
ANNE O'HARE MCCORMICK

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
ANNE O'HARE MCCORMICK

My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disapp...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro...
TERRY MCCORMICK

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. ...
SIERRA MCCORMICK

Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.
CYRUS MCCORMICK

Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green g...
CYRUS MCCORMICK

If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beau...
SIERRA MCCORMICK

I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going ar...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or ...
MAUREEN MCCORMICK

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. ...
MAUREEN MCCORMICK

Based on what we're hearing from the front lines of our fuel service stations, there currently is no...
CAROLYN MCCORMICK

We continue to be carefully optimistic.
CAROLYN MCCORMICK

At this moment in time, with all the information I have, I am comfortable with saying that we will h...
CAROLYN MCCORMICK

We get our fuel from fuel lines from Virginia and Northern areas and that supply is healthy.
CAROLYN MCCORMICK

We've seen a marked increase from New Jersey. . . . It is growing.
CAROLYN MCCORMICK

I hate that not-in-my-backyard mentality, but this is America's backyard, ... With one hazard, you c...
CAROLYN MCCORMICK

The events of the past month help make clear that the United States must become more energy independ...
CAROLYN MCCORMICK

We do have a problem with geese, but we take care of it the best we can.
JIM MCCORMICK

Even though we run a cursory version of it, Dan has a lot to learn about the Princeton offense. Prov...
KEVIN MCCORMICK

You either need to score or get out of bounds quick, and some guys up front sprung him and did a nic...
JOHN MCCORMICK

We do not know who initiated or why an investigation was initiated in Brooklyn, but we have been coo...
ANDREW MCCORMICK

I prepare her with the wardrobe for the Miss Wisconsin Pageant.
MARILYN MCCORMICK

It looks premature to be calling for an end to the tightening cycle.
JAMES MCCORMICK

It is infinitely easier to criticize than to create.
JOHN MCCORMICK

We will not block, impair or degrade content, applications or services. That is the plainest and mos...
WALTER MCCORMICK

It's her private farm, and I run the business out of it.
JOHN MCCORMICK

It's a state-of-the-art hunter-jumper training center,
JOHN MCCORMICK

As far as we're concerned our city council doesn't respect the work that our people do ... so this f...
JOHN MCCORMICK

I can recall never seeing any type of lists,
JOHN MCCORMICK

The Star Spangled Banner,
JOHN MCCORMICK

They took such care laying the blocks. As they were building this house, every one of the stones, ev...
JOHN MCCORMICK

It won't be forgotten by our members,
JOHN MCCORMICK

We recommended it and our membership accepted it, but they weren't very happy with this deal,
JOHN MCCORMICK

There are certain activities we are trying to discourage [in China]. At the other end of the scale, ...
DAVID MCCORMICK

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, lik...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

Simply to endure is to triumph.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common den...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

This is a significant discovery. It's an exciting paper. It's definitely the way you would go about ...
ANNA MCCORMICK

This is a significant discovery. It's an exciting paper.
ANNA MCCORMICK

It is reported by medical professionals that [the eye exam] is not necessary. It is not something th...
JOHN MCCORMICK

All in all I'm real proud of our guys. I've stood up in this crow's nest six different times and not...
JOHN MCCORMICK

We're very sensitive to not killing the goose that laid the golden egg here. But with that said, we ...
DAVID MCCORMICK

I kept asking when the elephants were gonna arrive and the tents were gonna raise, cause it was kind...
JOHN MCCORMICK

This way, the (molten) glass is always spinning on a new axis and becomes spherical.
MARILYN MCCORMICK

I used the dump religiously.
JIM MCCORMICK

Arriving to class late is disruptive of the learning process. I think that it is disrespectful to bo...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

Turning, she looked out at the icy landscape, the soaring trees, branches dark and bitten blue with ...
MCCORMICK TEMPLEMAN

We have an indoor covered arena, an outdoor arena, 200 acres of trails and 90 acres of lush pasture....
JOHN MCCORMICK

The forests of the South are among the richest in terms of total number of species of any habitats i...
STEVE MCCORMICK

The sale of the building is truly a milestone for our organization. It's been the goal of the board ...
STEPHANIE MCCORMICK

Regulatory or legislative solutions wholly without justification in marketplace activities would sti...
WALTER MCCORMICK

Getting three in the first end was great, but we knew we had nine ends left and that wasn't going to...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK

Coal is a relatively inexpensive form of energy compared to petroleum, and the United States has abu...
BOB MCCORMICK

I'm not in a position to say that all athletes are clean. I'm not naive enough to say that. But to s...
BOB MCCORMICK

It's the little details that guys do to make their bikes stand out from the next guy.
BOB MCCORMICK

We think the underlying momentum in the Fed policy story warrants more explicit long dollar exposure...
JAMES MCCORMICK

Sebring is one of our bread-and-butter sedans in terms of providing good, solid transportation at a ...
KEVIN MCCORMICK

You always think of L.L. Bean as the catalog company, but now we're the Web company.
CHRIS MCCORMICK

If a dealer wants to offer additional incentives to compete in that local market, he's certainly fre...
KEVIN MCCORMICK

We laid down an ink trail to confuse the other runners.
KEVIN MCCORMICK

What bothers me is suddenly there's this inherent distrust of the judiciary, ... Suddenly, we're bla...
MICHAEL MCCORMICK

Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm.
A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

Hey, S.T.," Sydney says finally.
I don't budge.
She nudges me with her elbow. "You want ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

Rochelle," she calls out, still looking at me. "Is there anyone down at the desk? I need something."...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

People who aren't asleep when Ruby comes around have to take sleeping pills. Everyone is afraid of t...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipp...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to ...
KATHRYN MCCORMICK

She is our kid that we need on base in that situation. Her speed is such a burst, I think she can go...
SCOTT MCCORMICK

We were going to play a little bit more conservative, but in the first end we really had no choice, ...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK

You never know with teams that are out of it. They can play loose, come out with their A games, beat...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK

Every experience builds confidence and you learn from everything.
DEBBIE MCCORMICK

I'm more relaxed, I'm more confident, I know what I want to play, so it's a lot better feeling. We a...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK

It's totally different. Winnipeg was my first year skipping. It was kinda 'what's going on.' There w...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK

We only have to win one more to get in the 1-2 game so we're still not looking too far ahead and we ...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK

By rushing out a one-sided rule that encourages only land line to wireless transfers, that promise w...
WALTER MCCORMICK

He (Hermann) was excited to meet us. We all started going to different events ? spiritual churches, ...
CHANDRA MCCORMICK

In all this time, they should have found everybody they have down there.
CHANDRA MCCORMICK

This is not good at all. But we have each other. And we have our family, and that's going to keep us...
CHANDRA MCCORMICK

In the past, the [Federal Communications Commission] repeatedly has expressed its commitment to port...
WALTER MCCORMICK

The significant difference between Proust and Faulkner, for Sartre, is that where Proust discovers s...
JOHN MCCORMICK

There is a gap between publications from U.S. and non-U.S. groups. With the current trajectory, if t...
JENNIFER MCCORMICK

I knew at that time this was in fact an attack. We knew that the World Trade Center was the target o...
MICHAEL MCCORMICK

Technology has become the plumbing of education, ... You expect it to work.
JIM MCCORMICK

He got what he deserved. I'm a happy camper.
JANE MCCORMICK

I'm really glad it's not condos going in there.
JANE MCCORMICK

I'm so glad, I've been waiting to hear this. I know it sounds terrible, but that was everything I ha...
JANE MCCORMICK

We're all passionate about what we do. But it shouldn't boil down to that.
JAMES MCCORMICK

A continued decline in U.S. equity purchases will be a telling sign of foreign appetite for U.S. sec...
JAMES MCCORMICK

There is a reasonably strong case for economic growth in Europe.
JAMES MCCORMICK

The Asian currency rally has arrived, ... most Asian currencies should appreciate by a much larger m...
JAMES MCCORMICK

Without a doubt, it's going to be a very disappointing year for those who have been looking for an A...
JAMES MCCORMICK

The news out of the U.S. the past few weeks is clearly dollar positive.
JAMES MCCORMICK

He was first guy to see the high returns that could be earned on credit cards,
JAMES MCCORMICK

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK

The United States can't allow its technology and scientific strengths to lessen because it will affe...
JENNIFER MCCORMICK

There's a character in the book called Bill the Lizard, and our Bill the Lizard is a surfer dude.
JENNIFER MCCORMICK

The whole time, from when it hit to when the government actually got there, you knew (people) were d...
JENNIFER MCCORMICK

A man came on from Feed the Children. And he said, 'I challenge you all across America to get togeth...
JENNIFER MCCORMICK

We maintain that our rates are competitive and reasonable and appropriate for the risk in Texas.
JOE MCCORMICK

We have to make sure that one or two storms are not going to wipe out the company.
JOE MCCORMICK

Let's say your mortgage is $1,000 a month and you found an apartment at $1,200 a month. Allstate wil...
JOE MCCORMICK

For now just stage them, and we'll arrange them when we get the map.
JOE MCCORMICK

It's probably more than we needed.
JOE MCCORMICK

I think a lot of resources are being stretched right now, and always with any catastrophic weather e...
JOE MCCORMICK

I've also noticed a lot of the older rock being re-mastered and released on CD. Classic rock does we...
JEFF MCCORMICK

The music industry is trying all kinds of new things. But I've never had anyone request swing music ...
JEFF MCCORMICK

Two weeks ago, I came out and told these guys I didn't know anything. They helped me out a ton. With...
MATT MCCORMICK

We did underestimate the challenge sludge posed.
MATT MCCORMICK

She talked me into taking my car down there and sure enough I could hear a log scraping the car unde...
MARILYN MCCORMICK

The original patent didn't have dimensions and contained just enough information to obtain a patent ...
MARILYN MCCORMICK

If he's having second thoughts, maybe your column and a look at Posada's Web site will persuade him ...
MIKE MCCORMICK

It's only a traffic infraction. It's like a speeding ticket.
MAUREEN MCCORMICK

A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he s...
MAUREEN MCCORMICK

This is the nightmare scenario for Harper. I don't know how much they can get done.
PETER MCCORMICK

Everything fell into place for us tonight.
SAMMIE MCCORMICK

That team was a lot more than those two. We expect them to field a good team this year.
SAMMY MCCORMICK

[The dichotomy in the courts' treatment of abortion and embryos could change the approach of fathers...
MICHAEL MCCORMICK

Time will tell what happens this winter.
TRACY MCCORMICK

Things are just too dynamic and unknown for the district to be constrained by such criteria.
SUPERINTENDENT CHARLIE MCCORMICK

It was an okay game for us for the first game back after Christmas break.
COACH LYNN MCCORMICK

The big question is how you pay for it. It's the best idea I've heard so far. We're moving in that d...
REP. GERALD MCCORMICK

We certainly need to secure the borders. I'm opposed to a border system that works like a sieve We a...
REP. TERRI MCCORMICK

The administration is not willing to recommend a plan that would likely result in this number of bou...
SUPERINTENDENT CHARLIE MCCORMICK

Whatever's got you down is causing a great deal of stress. Pick yourself up and reflect on the posit...
BIANCA MCCORMICK-JOHNSON

It was great having Stephen with us. It has been a long haul for him and I know he is really hopeful...
COACH LYNN MCCORMICK

Our TEAM defense was the difference in this game. I thought we were very aggressive defensively and ...
COACH LYNN MCCORMICK

This visit, a pre-primary endorsement before the voters and my neighbors have had the opportunity to...
REP. TERRI MCCORMICK

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother T...
ANNE LAMOTT

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
ANNE CAMPBELL

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and...
ANNE BAXTER

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to b...
ANNE RICE

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
ANNE FRANK

I live in a crazy time.
ANNE FRANK

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not le...
ANNE LAMOTT

Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday...
ANNE HATHAWAY

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and ...
ANNE LAMOTT

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our ...
ANNE LAMOTT

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big ...
ANNE LAMOTT

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
ANNE SPENCER

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
ANNE BRADSTREET

Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more ...
ANNE FADIMAN

I got to the point where the vampire began describing his brother's death, and the whole thing just ...
ANNE RICE

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
ANNE RICE

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and ma...
ANNE BRONTE

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
ANNE BRONTE

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of ...
ANNE BRONTE

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise...
ANNE BRONTE

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.
ANNE BRONTE

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
ANNE BRONTE

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I...
ANNE BRONTE

It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for eve...
ANNE BRONTE

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him t...
ANNE BRONTE

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
ANNE BRONTE

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if ...
ANNE BRONTE

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thin...
ANNE SMEDLEY

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than tha...
ANNE FRANK

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and ...
ANNE FRANK

the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods.
ANNE FRANK

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK

I love rom-coms, and I was bummed that they sort of stopped making them around the time I was old en...
ANNE HATHAWAY

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the...
ANNE DUDLEY

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the ...
ANNE BURRELL

I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist...
ANNE STEVENSON

Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
ANNE BRADSTREET

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box . . .
ANNE RICE

Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no re...
ANNE RICE

You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.
ANNE RICE

I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edw...
ANNE RICE

But at that moment I heard Claudia's voice. She was calling my name. I turned, and, through the tang...
ANNE RICE

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know w...
ANNE RICE

During this crisis you failed us
ANNE RICE

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE

I look around at my peers, and I'm so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool...
ANNE HATHAWAY

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
ANNE LAMOTT

I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we ...
ANNE SEXTON

After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going a...
ANNE BURRELL

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the deva...
ANNE PERRY

I work reasonably hard. Though probably not harder than many people. I work probably eight or nine h...
ANNE PERRY

I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that...
ANNE PERRY

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it s...
ANNE PERRY

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my...
ANNE PERRY

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
ANNE PERRY

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of pe...
ANNE PERRY

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well pr...
ANNE PERRY

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class...
ANNE PERRY

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has sho...
ANNE SULLIVAN

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history, ....
ANNE SULLIVAN

This is a real successful brand with great name recognition and household penetration.
ANNE SULLIVAN

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
ANNE SULLIVAN

Again, it's an elective component for parents and students, but the support is there in the event th...
ANNE SULLIVAN

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation, and the effect of decisiveness itself 'makes things go' and creates confidence

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