Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Harvey

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Alistair Cooke

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

Armstrong Williams

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

Arianna Huffington

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

Arianna Huffington

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

A. J. Liebling

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

Chris Wallace

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

Walter Cronkite

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

Walter Cronkite

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Dan Rather

What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

David Hartman

Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.

David Hartman

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

Bennett Cerf

A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.

Linda Ellerbee

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

Barbara Walters

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barbara Walters

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Ray Stannard Baker

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

Ray Stannard Baker

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.

You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.

Mark Shields

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

Mark Shields

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin.

Mark Shields

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.

Mark Shields

George Bush is trying to play it both ways.

Michael E. Mann

We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.

Robert Scheer

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

Michael Wilbon

Yeah, see, my view of Jordan is that he doesn't belong to Washington.

Harrison Salisbury

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

Martha Gellhorn

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

Martha Gellhorn

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.