Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Robert Jeffress

If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.

Warren Mitchell

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

William Taylor

The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

Voltaire

The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

William Ralph Inge

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Winston Churchill

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.

Jacque Fresco

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

Hector Hugh Munro

There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.

Ned Colletti

He has not informed the Giants of that decision.

James Hansen

Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we dither.

James Fallows

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

Cervantes Saavedra

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Murray Rothbard

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

Mark Buchanan

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

Ellen Hopkins

Easier, sometimes, to gulp down giant spoonfuls of uncertainty than it is to swallow throat-clogging capsules of what really is.

Woody Johnson

It is our intention to be partners with the Giants in perpetuity.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Russell Baker

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Will Rogers

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Frank Zappa

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read

Henry David Thoreau

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

P. J. O'Rourke

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

Benito Mussolini

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

Maureen Dowd

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.

Nora Ephron

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.