Quotes by Journalists - Page 21

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
In Chinese the word for crisis is weiji composed of the character wei which means danger and ji which means opportunity.
Jan Wong
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy
Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops.
H.L. Mencken
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.
Walter Lippmann
The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.
Alexander Chase
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.
Rebecca West
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
Walter Bagehot
A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H.L. Mencken
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
Walter Bagehot
I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises loud talk music you name it.
Sylvia Porter
Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
Gloria Steinem
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar a custom which is still continued.
Helen Rowland
Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford as smart as Henry Kissinger as noble as Ralph Nader as funny as Woody Allen and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen as smart as Jimmy Connors as funny as Ralph Nader as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway.
Judith Viorst
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B.C. Forbes
Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
John Beecher
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.
William Lloyd Garrison
One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again.
Judith Viorst
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself looked it full in the face and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B.C. Forbes
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
Richard Harkness
Nations like individuals live and die but civilization cannot die.
Guiseppe Mazzini
A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin
Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired you've had a headache since you arrived but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
Simon Hoggart
Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there And 'twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation.
Daniel Defoe
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
Katharine Whitehorn
Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour.
Ambrose Bierce
God will forgive me. That's his business.
Heinrich Heine
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots the other wings.
Hodding Carter
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Christopher Morley
Cheer up the worst is yet to come.
Philander Johnson
Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.
John Boyle O'Reilly
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two where God has not.
Joaquin Miller
Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits that which he has and that which he thinks he has.
Alphonse Karr
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus
It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever.
Walt Whitman
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.
H.L. Mencken
Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Ambrose Bierce
To remain young one must change.
Alexander Chase
Weep not that the world changes- did it keep a stable changeless state it were a cause indeed to weep.
William Cullen Bryant
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it we have lived by it we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Carl T. Rowan
Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy
Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change and change is the basic law.
Hal Borland
I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years.
Finley Peter Dunne
Every man even the most blessed needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
Vance Bourjaily
The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)
Alphonse Karr
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Walt Whitman
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
Walter Bagehot
Net - the biggest word in the language of business.
Herbert Casson
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.
H.L. Mencken
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.
James K. Glassman
Let us be French as the Americans are English.
Henri Bourassa
Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
Henry George
Ours is a sovereign nation Bows to no foreign will But whenever they cough in Washington They spit on Parliament Hill.
Joe Wallace
The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.
Brian Moore
Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses.
B. K. Sandwell
Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.
Richard Staines