Vernon A. Walters famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
-- Vernon A. Walters

#Surprise #Endless #Expected
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
-- Vernon A. Walters

#Attitude #Want #Feels
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
-- Vernon A. Walters

#Country #Lynching #United States
I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
-- Vernon A. Walters

#Doctrine #Ambiguity #Constructive
For over ten years, bombs rained down on every village and hamlet in South Vietnam, and no one budged. It took the coming of a Communist 'peace' to send hundreds of thousands of people out into the South China Sea, on anything that could float, or might float, to risk dehydration, piracy, drowning . . .
-- Vernon A. Walters

#Years #Sea #People
I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
-- Vernon A. Walters

#Pragmatists #Idealism #Describe Myself

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.
It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.
Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
The expected always happens
On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far
You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

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