Famous quotes by Journalists

"We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see"

Neil Sheehan, Journalist

"There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest"

Bugs Baer, Journalist

"Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach"

Susan Estrich, Journalist

"We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong""

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself, being the first person to be convinced of it"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed, would be right proud eternally to die for"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'"

Dan Rather, Journalist

"Never eat spinach just before going on the air"

Dan Rather, Journalist

"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"Buy the ticket, take the ride"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Never wear anything that panics the cat"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

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