Famous quotes by Journalists

"Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"In a free society, the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"She's been on more laps than a napkin"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation"

Walter Winchell, Journalist

"Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home"

Eric Sevareid, Journalist

"If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

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