Quotes by Journalists - Page 4

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.
James Reston
Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'Tis better than many have For while we've a whole lot of troubles The most of them never occur.
Nixon Waterman
Turn resolutely to work to recreation or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
B.C. Forbes
If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen Then it were better for the world That the world had never been.
Charles C. Leland
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
We must stand together if we don't there will be no victory for any one of us.
Mother Jones
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
Barbara Walters
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.
Meridel Le Sueur
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Walter Lippman
I have worked all my life wanted to work all my life needed to work all my life.
Liz Carpenter
There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
Liz Smith
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
Winifred Holtby
There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
Albert Camus
Unionism seldom if ever uses such powers as it has to ensure better work almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.
H.L. Mencken
Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.
James Reston
Change is legitimate and inevitable for our language is a mighty river picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there but growing ever wider and richer.
Robert MacNeil
Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing it's the most exciting form of communication.
Oren Arnold
I wonder what language truck drivers are using now that everyone is using theirs?
Beryl Pfizer
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.
Sydney J. Harris
When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
B.C. Forbes
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H.L. Mencken
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Gloria Steinem
She was not a woman likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.
Anthony Delano
As a woman to be competitive is to be passive.
Marianne Partridge
Woman is at once apple and serpent.
Heinrich Heine
You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.
Helen Lawrenson
Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.
Polly Toynbee
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Alexander Chase
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin
Go West young man and grow up with the country.
Horace Greeley
Out where the handclasp's a little stronger Out where the smile dwells a little longer That's where the West begins.
Arthur Chapman
Oh what a blamed uncertain thing This pesky weather is It blew and snew and then it thew And now by jing it's friz.
Philander Johnson
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.
Henry George
It is good to have things that money can buy but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.
George Horace Lorimer
War hath no fury like a noncombatant.
C.E. Montague
Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.
Frank Knox
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
Boake Carter
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
George Will
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
Norman Cousins
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
Anne O'Hare McCormick
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell
Wars are not fought for territory but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic the group-mind takes over.
Arthur Koestler
War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.
Georges Clémenceau
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Georges Clémenceau
Above all Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.
Myra McPherson
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
Oriana Fallaci
It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor the world over.
Henry George
The history of all times and of today especially teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
Louise Otto
No doubt alcohol tobacco and so forth are things that a saint must avoid but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
George Orwell
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.
Christopher Morley
The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide not murder.
Norman Mailer
I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
Albert Camus
Show me someone who never gossips and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
Barbara Walters