Quotes by Journalists - Page 8

As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway
He gets a good hold on the paintbrush then confidently has the ladder removed.
Roger Vaughan
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Helen Rowland
Love like a chicken salad or restaurant hash must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
Helen Rowland
A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame and the brunt of the storm.
Herbert N. Casson
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness business men who were not afraid of failure scientists who were not afraid of the truth thinkers who were not afraid of progress dreamers who were not afraid of action.
Brooks Atkinson
Wherever there is a human being I see God-given rights inherent in that being whatever may be the sex or complexion.
William Lloyd Garrison
The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world and others no right.
Henry George
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Winifred Holtby
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening.
Gloria Steinem
Are you doing the kind of work you were built for so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little?
B.C. Forbes
The best career advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."
Katharine Whitehorn
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.
Rebecca West
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
Barbara Walters
The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it with whole heart and single mind.
Gail Sheehy
Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests which change but what you are and what you love which will and should not change.
Georgie Anne Geyer
Whatever you want in life other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Diane Sawyer
I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes economic pressure and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
Naomi Wolf
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here no prettily drawn list of good intentions.
Joan Didion
Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge
When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the sun and scratch himself.
H.L. Mencken
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.
William Lloyd Garrison
Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
Ambrose Bierce
God will pardon me. It's his business.
Heinrich Heine
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H.L. Mencken
A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.
H.L. Mencken
If you can't be kind at least be vague.
David Powers
To all things clergic I am allergic.
Alexander Woollcott
Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does.
Ambrose Bierce
My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.
Christopher Morley
Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.
H.L. Mencken
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
Heinrich Heine
Heathen n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Ambrose Bierce
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
Heinrich Heine
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
After all what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
The Globe and Mail
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief but they run away fr'm doubt.
Finley Peter Dunne
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly enthusiastically unremittingly woo her.
B.C. Forbes
Motivation triggers luck.
Mike Wallace
Your luck is how you treat people.
Bridget O'Donnell
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell
The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale an' th' rest'll be rubber (plastic!)
Finley Peter Dunne
The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.
Gabriel García Márquez
[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.
Barbara Walters
Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals " or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.
Maggie Scarf
We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
Brooks Atkinson
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 as appropriate for your special endowments.
Charlton Ogburn
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
Equal opportunity is good but special privilege even better.
Anna Chennault
Geography is about maps But biography is about chaps.
E.C. Bentley
We also serve who only punctuate.
Brian Moore
He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.
Ring Lardner
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman
There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.
Henry George