Quotes by Journalists - Page 28

The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you

Christopher Hitchens

Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time," said Ostap. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody knows. We are in a terrible bind.

Ilya Ilf

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

Michael Lewis

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...

Ernest Hemingway

The secret of victory is to find the point of maximum vulnerability and then strike. No matter your feelings. No matter how much you respect the enemy.

Robert Ferrigno

I think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.

Matthew Norman

When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like "to feel comfortable in their own skin" and "to find their path in the world." They want their kids to develop their own tastes and opinions. In fact, French parents worry if their kids are too docile. They want them to have chara

Pamela Druckerman

The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of national security circles. It has been hidden by secrecy, complexity and scale. The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.These transformations have come about silently, because those who know what is going on work in the global surveillance industry and have no incentives to speak out. Left to its own trajectory, within a few years, global civilization will be a postmodern surveillance dystopia, from which escape for all but the most skilled individuals will be impossible. In fact, we may already be there.While many writers have considered what the internet means for global civilization, they are wrong. They are wrong because they do not have the sense of perspective that direct experience brings. They are wrong because they have never met the enemy.

Julian Assange

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

Eduardo Galeano

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.

Gloria Steinem

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

José Saramago

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

Ernest Hemingway

My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage could. My opponent, my fight, would be against the slipping aspects of American society.

Cameron Conaway

Life,perhaps less a document than an impression,conveyed through partial glances,stream-of-consciousness juxtapositions,unpredictable rhythms, a collage of sound,a conscientious diarist,a career of blackmail and scandal culminated in murder,a blind man with a will of iron and a nervous system of gossamer.

Brian D'Ambrosio

Raz was one of those vanguard human beings of indeterminate ethnicity, the magnificent mutts that I hope we are all destined to become given another millennium of intermixing. His skin was a rich pecan color from his dad, who was part African American and part native Hawaiian. His hair, straight and glossy black, and the almond shape of his eyes came from his Japanese grandmother. But their color was the cool blue he'd inherited from his mum, a Swedish windsurfing champion.

Geraldine Brooks

My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day with a smile on my face. I am among the ranks of millions of people who appreciate the souls of dogs and know they are a gift of pure love and an example of all that is good.

Jennifer Skiff

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

Elizabeth Wurtzel

What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.

David Wong

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

José Saramago

In person, Mr. Desmond mixes low-key friendliness and on-message discipline.

Jennifer Schuessler

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Ellen Goodman

But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.

Chelsey Philpot

An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

George Monbiot

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

Christopher Morley

Entheogens (or psychedelics, to be more historically correct) have now been recognized as the mother of our Western ecology and conservation movements, as well as the entire field of transpersonal psychology and our apparent desire to return to some firsthand spiritual and/or mystical understanding of G/d (rather than blindly accepting traditional religious dogma without an experiential basis.

James Oroc

There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

Joan Didion

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.

Robert Lane Greene

So much of people's fortune, good or bad, depends upon how they choose to fall in love.

Kate Saunders

If wishes were held on the skin and swiped by raindrops, then emotions were freeloading off the cells that made up their space. The only offering these cells ever entertained was truth, painful and raw.

Amy Guth

A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.

Linda Robinson

It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it...

Zoë Heller

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Louise Strong

It is terrible to be an unprotected being.

Colm Tóibín

Long before all these divisions were opened between home and the road, betweens a woman's place and a man's world, humans followed the crops, the seasons, traveling with their families, our companions, animals, our tents. We built campfires and moved from place to place. This way of traveling is still in our cellular memory. Living things have evolved as travelers, Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.

Gloria Steinem

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

How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?

Christopher Hitchens

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story

Tushar Upreti

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

As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they were. They were forged by hand so many years ago and had stood the test of time.

Buffy Andrews

...moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.

Susan Squire

Song of myselfSmile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset--earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth--rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.

Walt Whitman

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

Glenn Greenwald

The Women’s March had restored my faith as I am sure it has introduced the young generation to the new wave of feminism. A feminist movement that was made up of both sexes and all ages and creeds, one that did away with the arguments and stood arm in arm for a greater cause, a cause which the Arab media did not wish to project.

Aysha Taryam

The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their kids because they know, from personal experience, that creative success requires nothing less.

Jonah Lehrer

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

F. Sionil Jose'

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

George Orwell

You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.

David Brooks

I wonder what Thoreau would have done...[H}is greatest story, I thought, was his life. He knew that anything is possible when you wield the pen and claim your life as your own. But the truth is so few have the privilege to write their own stories. People are born into poverty without a hope of redemption. Children are abused and damaged. Disease and war and famine and a million other things prevent them from wielding the pen. But for those of us who can, should it not be our great privilege to live the lives we've imagined? To be who we want to be? To go on our own great journeys and share our experiences with others?

Ken Ilgunas

Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.("The Wendigo")

Algernon Blackwood

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.

Frank Herbert

We are not certain we are never certain.

Albert Camus

My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.

Tahir Shah

But if America falters in greatness and purpose, than Americans are nothing but the offscourings and hungry of other lands.

Theodore H. White

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

William Cobbett

In India everything has a use and a value.

Tahir Shah

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

Christopher Hitchens

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