Quotes by Journalists - Page 33

In the Empire, the Scholars are not allowed to read and, like so many bullies and power-seekers who hide behind ideologies to justify the terrible things they do, their oppressors wear masks. 'An Ember in the Ashes' suggests that such masks (literal or figurative) don’t work. Not forever, anyway. Masks only cover faces. It’s actions that show who we are.

Chelsey Philpot

Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.' I didn't know that deers could

Laura Pedersen

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Frank Herbert

Even their downtime was epic.

Robert Kurson

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates. The more knowledge, the better seems like the a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.

Sarah Vowell

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you.

Amy Jacques-Garvey

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

Albert Camus

Fidelity surveyed a group with at least $1 million investment assets excluding real estate and retirement. 42% of them did not FEEL wealthy.

Christopher Hayes

It's true that Thomas was a doubter, but he was not a cynic, and that's an important distinction. Cynics often look for reasons not to believe and won't be moved by something beautiful—just to make a point—even if it's staring them down. Thomas wasn't a cynic, he was a hopeful doubter; he'd believe if he could.

Jonathan Martin

vocations almost always involve tasks that transcend a lifetime. They almost always involve throwing yourself into a historical process. They involve compensating for the brevity of life by finding membership in a historic commitment.

David Brooks

...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall.

Ada Calhoun

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

Zoë Heller

Her fingers traced his stomach, trying to remember this is real, this is real with each strike of her heart.

Rebecca Brooks

The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural.

David Gibson

All day and all night my desire for you unwinds like a poisonous snake.

Samar Sen

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

Tom Bissell

Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past.

Mark Kurlansky

There are a great many opinions in this world and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

Mavis Gallant

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

P.J. O'Rourke

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Research shows that when they confront a potentially unpleasant situation, such as some unfriendly faces at a gathering, these extraverts are apt to shift their attention rapidly around the room and zero in on amiable or neutral visages, thus short-circuiting the distressing images before they can get stored in memory.

Winifred Gallagher

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.

P.J. O'Rourke

The American Society of Civil Engineers said in 2007 that the U.S. had fallen so far behind in maintaining its public infrastructure -- roads, bridges, schools, dams -- that it would take more than a trillion and half dollars over five years to bring it back up to standard. Instead, these types of expenditures are being cut back. At the same time, public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. The well-off, meanwhile, will withdraw into gated communities, their needs met by privatized providers.

Naomi Klein

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

Christopher Hitchens

A person's value is attached to a variable exponent.

David Bajo

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

Laura Miller

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

Jane Jacobs

L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante.

Georges Clémenceau

To cope, he and his siblings – older and younger sisters, a younger brother - created a game called Henry Kissinger. Palahniuk remembers that as their parents fought, lots would be drawn to see who would play Kissinger. 'This was the early to mid-70s, when Kissinger was a hero, forging peace in the Middle East,' he explains. 'Whoever became Henry Kissinger would have to go and redirect our parents’ attention or anger to a different crisis.' The child who drew the short straw would severely hurt himself, presenting himself as 'this injured thing' in an effort to diffuse conflict.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.

Robert A. Caro

...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...

John Geddes

No matter what it is, if you don’t move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work. Television rules that out.

Mark Helprin

Choose a compassionate frame of mind. Always choose love. Always be kind.

Beth Arnold

Ideas... [are] like babies - everything about their environment [says] they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.(Attributed to Mike Jones)

Steven Levy

Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.

Joe Wallace

I sometimes think," said Jason, " that the soul may be a state of mind.

Clifford D. Simak

And I read hundreds and thousands of books, day and night, always awake and always eager to seek health. But in no book I found what I was looking for. Then, shut up in my parents' house, I thought and suffered for hundreds and thousands of hours, always awake and always mindful of the tremendous anxiety of health. But I still have not found what I was looking for.

Giovanni Papini

I dream in fire but work in clay.

Arthur Machen

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Brenda Ueland

...that's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel...

John Geddes

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’

Tony Schwartz

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

Mitch Albom

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.

Paul Lafargue

I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.

Nicholas Dettmann

Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.

Germany Kent

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

Aleksandar Hemon

He realized that he agonized over everything all the time, and he admitted that part of the problem in the Carter game had been his own lack of belief in his abilities. He knew the reason why he was like this, that it was the price he paid for carefully watching out for himself ever since he had been a little boy. 'I've never taken a chance in life,' he said. 'I need to run in front of traffic bucknacked and get arrested.

H.G. Bissinger

As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.

Tahir Shah

Cooper's tremendous love and energy and unchained freedom had captured life itself. Now, as the last shovelful covered him forever, I knew I would always carry a big piece of Cooper Half Malamute with me until I too was covered by the earth.

Peter Jenkins

Republicans have succeeded with a social agenda that gets people to vote against their own interests while the Democrats are so elitist that they can't tap into the anger that's real.

Peter Applebome

Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, once joked, “Richard, just don’t come to Washington.

Richard Engel

Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are.

Gemma Malley

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Matt Taibbi

I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;

Walt Whitman

You always hear all these statements like "Freedom isn't free." You hear the President talking about all these people making sacrifices. But you never really know until you carry one of them in a casket. When you feel their bodyweight. When you feel them. That's when you know. That's when you understand.

Jim Sheeler

Why don't you like getting close?' Marianne insisted. 'Is it because you might get hurt?' Owen shook his head. He still couldn't look at her. 'It's because it's never permanent. Everything dies. Everything gets destroyed. Even love. So we just make the best of it-get our pleasure where we can.

Andy Lane

George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

Edmund C. Bentley

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