Quotes by Journalists - Page 13

People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.
Richard J. Needham
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
H.L. Mencken
Dear God I pray for patience. And I want it right now!
Oren Arnold
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Norman Cousins
A finished person is a boring person.
Anna Quindlen
The essence of man is imperfection.
Norman Cousins
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
I am a man of peace God knows how I love peace but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.
Louis Kossuth
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.
John Miller
If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Miller
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
Norman Cousins
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.
Jane Pauley
Peace: in international affairs a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Ambrose Bierce
Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.
George Orwell
There is Ontario patriotism Quebec patriotism or Western patriotism each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others but there is no Canadian patriotism and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.
Henri Bourassa
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
W. C. Brann
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
Elliot Paul
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
H.L. Mencken
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
Hunter S. Thompson
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Djuna Barnes
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water - they are good servants but bad masters.
Roger I'Estrange
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
Georges Clémenceau
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
Albert Camus
Our sons who so easily recognize our errors and rightly denounce them will have to confess their own later on and they may be as bad as ours perhaps worse.
Bruce Hutchison
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler
Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
H.L. Mencken
The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you.
Elmer Davis
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
Edward R. Murrow
If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Charley Reese
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.
Joan Didion
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
B.C. Forbes
I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.
Connie Chung
The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point in the face of all the propaganda is how few Americans actually live this way.
Louise Kapp Howe
This is a youth-oriented society and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Dorothy Fuldheim
A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite lose her waistline her bust-line her ability to bear a child even her sense of humor but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality her femininity.
Barbara Gordon
You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.
B.C. Forbes
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
Charlton Ogburn
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
B.C. Forbes
Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.
Thomas F. Woodlock
In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Helen Rowland
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus
Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
Finley Peter Dunne
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong able alert men go after opportunity.
B.C. Forbes
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
The world is not run by thought nor by imagination but by opinion.
Elizabeth Drew
To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce
The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.
H.L. Mencken
As Spinoza or someone very much like him once said . . .
Judith Viorst
Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried unresisting with the current. They float through easy days. They live unquestioning in the moment.
Christopher Morley
Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.
Ben Hecht
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.
Norman Cousins
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains if we will only stop the waste and the idle useless regretting.
Arthur Brisbane
Time isn't a commodity something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
Antoinette Bosco
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth.
Albert Camus
The proper function of man is to live not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Jack London
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.
Meridel Le Sueur