Quotes by Journalists - Page 18

How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one that's wrong because it may never be right and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster you've tried you've learned something you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.
Edward McCabe
Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities the strength the wisdom the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.
Charlton Ogburn
Psychology is action not thinking about oneself.
Albert Camus
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.
Dorothy Day
Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.
The Independent
As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.
Ernest Hemingway
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Mary Heaton Vorse
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
B.C. Forbes
I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.
Frank A. Vanderlip
Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.
Cokie Roberts
Many a person has held close throughout their entire lives two friends that always remained strange to one another because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make ... your life bearable.
Francine du Plessix Gray
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to our friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus like mercy is twice blessed.
Erastus Wiman
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds even if it is the salt of the earth.
Rebecca West
A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
Sophie Irene Loeb
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty esteem cordiality sympathy affection readiness to aid to help to stick to fight for if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
B.C. Forbes
There is a definite process by which one made people into friends and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West
[My father] was generous with his affection given to great awkward engulfing hugs and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs all starched shirt tobacco Old Spice and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.
Linda Ellerbee
Both within the family and without our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.
Elizabeth Fishel
Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks the less is left over for the others.
Elizabeth Fishel
The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body history and dreams.
Elizabeth Fishel
Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family: Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.
Jane Howard
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Edna Buchanan
Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
Carlos P. Romulo
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Buchanan
Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
Ambrose Bierce
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
My God this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
Warren G. Harding
I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.
Helene Iswolsky
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.
Walt Whitman
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
Mignon McLaughlin
Considering the fortune you might have lost you'll have to admit you're rich already.
John Rothchild
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr
For one mother joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.
Eileen Stukane
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
Robert Quillen
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins
To understand is to forgive even oneself.
Alexander Chase
Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.
Harvey Fergusson
Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.
Meridel Le Sueur
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other because of many kindnesses because of luck. ... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
Ellen Goodman
God will forgive me that is His business.
Heinrich Heine
God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee O God!
Heinrich Heine
Hate smolders and eventually destroys not the hated but the hater.
Dorothy Thompson
Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.
Gwen Bristow
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
Sydney J. Harris
The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
Louis Kossuth
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Karl Kraus
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.
Christopher Morley
Baby bye Here's a fly Let us watch him you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.
Theodore Tilton
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Walt Whitman
Angling is an innocent cruelty.
George Parker
We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious.
Brenda Ueland
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.
Norman Mailer
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness aggressiveness engenders hostility hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.
Dorothy Thompson
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
This is the century of fear.
Albert Camus