Quotes by Journalists - Page 9

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes to increase luxury and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
Henry George
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H.L. Mencken
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H.L. Mencken
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Richard J. Needham
Pray devoutly but hammer stoutly.
Sir William Gurney Benham
God give me work till my life shall end And life till my work is done.
Winifred Holtby
If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano operate a computer or fly an airplane it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.
Paul Rees
He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.
Sir William Gurney Benham
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Richard J. Needham
Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.
Sydney J. Harris
Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.
Ambrose Bierce
He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.
Karl Kraus
Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.
Konrad Heiden
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Walter Lippmann
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Liberal - a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
Theodore White
Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Ambrose Bierce
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature but to the injustice of man.
Henry George
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.
John Grogan
I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.
Frank Hughes
Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them good or bad.
Jacob A. Riis
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.
Dame Rebecca West
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.
William Cobbett
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.
Norman Cousins
The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was even if it's as bad as I think it is we'll make it work.
Edward McCabe
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
Norman Cousins
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident a tight girdle a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.
George Orwell
There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
Theodore White
Poetry was the maiden I loved but politics was the harridan I married.
Joseph Howe
Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.
Albert Camus
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.
Garry Wills
Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters using the voters' own money.
Richard J. Needham
Whin a man gets to be my age he ducks political meetin's an' reads th' papers an' weighs th' ividence an' th' argymints - pro-argymints an' con-argymints an' makes up his mind ca'mly an' votes th' Dimmycratic Ticket.
Finley Peter Dunne
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
David Brinkley
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate appease bribe seduce bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
Walter Lippman
I love this job. I love it to death. I love every waking minute of it.
Joey Smallwood
Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.
Philander Johnson
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
Walt Whitman
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley
The reader who is illuminated is in a real sense the poem.
H. M. Tomlinson
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
Brooks Atkinson
If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph.
Janet Malcolm
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce
People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.
Richard J. Needham
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
H.L. Mencken
Dear God I pray for patience. And I want it right now!
Oren Arnold
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Norman Cousins
A finished person is a boring person.
Anna Quindlen
The essence of man is imperfection.
Norman Cousins
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
I am a man of peace God knows how I love peace but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.
Louis Kossuth
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.
John Miller
If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Miller