Peggy Noonan: Goodness

Peggy Noonan is American author and journalist. Explore interesting quotes on goodness.

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“Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.”

Peggy Noonan

What I Saw at the Revolution : A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990), p. 179
Context: Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. John Kennedy had wit, and so did Lincoln, who also had abundant humor; Reagan was mostly humor.

Imagination , Intelligence , Nature

“Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping”

Peggy Noonan

“I think it's Romney. I think he's stealing in "like a thief with good tools," in Walker Percy's old words. While everyone is looking at the polls and the storm, Romney's slipping into the presidency. He's quietly rising, and he's been rising for a while.”

Peggy Noonan

Thinking

“Some things in life need to be mysterious. Sometimes you need to just keep walking. … It’s hard for me to look at a great nation issuing these documents and sending them out to the world and thinking, oh, much good will come of that.”

Peggy Noonan

Concerning release of information about accusations against George W. Bush, in "Winners & Sinners" in Columbia Journalism Review (19 April 2009) http://www.cjr.org/full_court_press/winners_sinners_12.php?page=all&print=true

Life , World , Thinking