Quotes by Journalists - Page 20

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman
He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him.
William Lyon Mackenzie
A torch-light procession marching down your throat.
John L. O'Sullivan
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus
In case of doubt decide in favor of what is correct.
Karl Kraus
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so.
Belva Davis
I said here's the river I want to flow on here's the direction I want to go and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.
Nancy Woodhull
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Jane Bryant Quinn
We are not certain we are never certain.
Albert Camus
Death is a door life opens.
Adela Rogers St. John
Experience is what really happens to you in the long run the truth that finally overtakes you.
Katherine Anne Porter
Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience day by day Even this shall pass away.
Theodore Tilton
No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn.
Hal Borland
What men value in the world is not rights but privileges.
H.L. Mencken
In a democracy the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is indispensable.
Walter Lippmann
The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
Sydney J. Harris
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is as far as possible to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices simply to do what you find yourself doing to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible to allow things to settle themselves as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.
Christopher Morley
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement the less perfect our success.
B.C. Forbes
Life is the sum of all your choices.
Albert Camus
You k'n hide de fier but what you guine do wid de smoke?
Joel Chandler Harris
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman
There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.
Charles Mackay
Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
Ambrose Bierce
Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Ambrose Bierce
Things have a terrible permanence when people die.
Joyce Kilmer
A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.
H.L. Mencken
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
Sidney J. Harris
Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be.
Ambrose Bierce
Critics are biased and so are readers. (Indeed a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.
Whitney Balliett
Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
John O'Hara
Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.
Damon Runyon
You lose it if you talk about it.
Ernest Hemingway
There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Henry George
New links must be forged as old ones rust.
Jane Howard
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly completely successfully or just completely the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
Julie Burchill
The more things change the more they remain the same.
Alphonse Karr
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
William Allen White
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Brooks Atkinson
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes).
Walt Whitman
Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy
The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.
John Hersey
One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.
George Orwell
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
Liz Carpenter
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
In true courage there is always an element of choice of an ethical choice and of anguish and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
Brenda Ueland
If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler
When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B.C. Forbes
Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing.
George Horace Lorimer
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger misfortune fear injustice while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
Gloria Steinem
Truth that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.
Anne Shannon Monroe
That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
Ruby Dee