Quotes by Journalists - Page 22

Thank God for allowing you to see another day. No matter what, keep trusting, keep believing, be strong, have hope. The best is yet to come.
Germany Kent
The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
Walt Whitman
One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
Tahir Shah
Is it OK to say, "these are the things that I value. This is what I'm going to pursue in life"?
Larissa MacFarquhar
I’ve learned that the creative life may or may not be the apex of human civilization, but either way it’s not what I thought it was. It doesn’t make you special and sparkly. You don’t have to walk alone. You can work in an office — I’ve worked in offices for the past 15 years and written five novels while doing it. The creative life is forgiving: You can betray it all you want, again and again, and no matter how many times you do, it will always take you back.
Lev Grossman
…the gavel became an extension of his arm and he used it to bludgeon the court into submission.
William Deihl
Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
Mitch Albom
I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.
Peter Heller
Maybe the human brain is an object beyond the reach of metaphor, for the simple reason that it is the only object capable of creating metaphors to describe itself. There really is nothing else like it. The human brain creates the human mind, and then the human mind tries to underhand the human brain, however long it takes and whatever the cost.
Luke Dittrich
Led Zep played with light and shade, ear-splitting noise and echoing quiet. They could do it all.
Quinton Skinner
She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.
Mitch Albom
Trump is a counter-product of the traditional political scheme.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
Christopher Morley
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
Frank Herbert
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
Ambrose Bierce
On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.
Michael Lewis
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
David Brooks
The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries rinsed of debris sweetened judiciously and served in small portions not very often.
Laura Palmer
She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.
Gabriel García Márquez
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong able alert men go after opportunity.
B.C. Forbes
Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like a cake.Time is substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
Antoinette Bosco
Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
Tahir Shah
I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge, or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. It happens sometimes while you’re playing sports, or listening to music or lost in a story, or to some people when they feel enveloped by God’s love. And it happens most when we connect with other people. I’ve come to think that happiness isn’t really produced by conscious accomplishments. Happiness is a measure of how thickly the unconscious parts of our minds are intertwined with other people and with activities. Happiness is determined by how much information and affection flows through us covertly every day and year.
David Brooks
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.
Michael Lewis
Desire acts as a honey trap to the unwary male, luring him into unworthy and catastrophic enterprises. The beauty of the Narnian witches isn't ancillary to their evil, but integral to it, one of the weapons in their arsenal. Evil must, after all, appear attractive if it's going to be tempting, and from there it's only a small step further to the conclusion that feminine beauty is inherently wicked.
Laura Miller
The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master. With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat. There was more leisure too, inexperienced though the animals were.
George Orwell
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Tom Wolfe
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
Ernest Hemingway
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
Renata Adler
The strange fact that out of millions of people in the world, your mother and father met and decided to get married to each other. And out of the millions of sperm, that the one with your genes was the one that made it to the egg and fertilised the egg. I'll never forget it.
A.J. Jacobs
Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes the reality principle.
Garry Wills
The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.
Tahir Shah
Fizz had a phrase for those manic occasions when you scaled every final peak, fell off the other side and passed out. Mightysatiety. The oblivion of maximum pleasure.
Tarun J. Tejpal
...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
Ian Fleming
[My parents] always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product.
Gayle Forman
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore H. White
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
Anne Taylor Fleming
Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem. It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane.
Frank Herbert
The lessons learned, then, in Robinson's case: "Additional training is required to inform soldiers of the dangers of self-medicating along with the associated risk of overdosing" is the first. "Encourage the use of a battle buddy among warriors" is the second. "Increase suicide prevention classes" is the third. "Increase communication to twice a day with high-risk soldiers" is the fourth. "Continue improvements in leader communication" is the fifth. And that's that. Eight months. Five minutes. The army moves on to the next suicide. Case forever closed.
David Finkel
So you've stopped thinking you're going to die?Oh, I'm more certain of it than ever. But I've stopped being scared.
Carsten Jensen
When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological freak, the result of some remarkable mistake in the evolutionary process. The ancient doctrine of original sin, variants of which occur independently in the mythologies of diverse cultures, could be a reflection of man's awareness of his own inadequacy, of the intuitive hunch that somewhere along the line of his ascent something has gone wrong.
Arthur Koestler
Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.
Naomi Wolf
No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.
George Orwell
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.
Amy Davidson
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn.
Hal Borland
Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2 000 000 000 years asexual reproduction was the rule. You know if you were a creature you just separated into two clones.
Mark Jerome Walters
I really believe that when we start talking ourselves back, we'll have more to offer the world." he [Woodenkinfe] said. "I don't want a gray world.""You mean taking back our cultures and where we come from.""Absolutely! You want to talk about the fabric of this country, that's it.""So rather than a melting pot, it would be a...""A blanket of color, all sewn in the shape of the U.S.
Philip Caputo
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
James M. Cain
This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.
Mark O'Connell
There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
George Orwell
...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...
John Geddes
Not every illness can be overcome. But many people allow illness to disfigure their lives more than it should. They cave in needlessly. They ignore and weaken whatever powers they have for standing erect. There is always a margin within which life can be lived with meaning and even with a certain measure of joy, despite illness.
Norman Cousins
The ignorance we’re ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.
Leah Hager Cohen
To defend my fear of sudden change, I chose to believe that life was incremental, that the tiny decisions you make every day determine your fate, that your job is to captain an enormous ship subtly into ever-clearer waters. But that’s not how it works at all. Life occurs in moments. You get into college. You propose. You get the job. You get cancer. You get fired. She leaves you...Because I was born in a stable country at a stable time, I falsely extrapolated that change is incremental. But if you zoom out just a little bit, you see that life is soccer, not basketball. It’s revolution, invention, war. It’s big bangs, exploding stars, asteroids killing the dinosaurs. Which means that all the action is in the risk taking, whether I want it to be or not.
Joel Stein
But if America falters in greatness and purpose, than Americans are nothing but the offscourings and hungry of other lands.
Theodore H. White
What peace it must be to know that someone is yours, no matter what - it is ordained, can never be otherwise.
Ariel Levy
History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has coined a couple of terms to make the distinction. He talks about the "experiencing self" versus the "remembering self.
Jennifer Senior
The important thing is to convince people to make and share useful things. Fighting with greedy douches who don't share doesn't do that. Making more, living under conditions of abundance, that does it.
Cory Doctorow