Eskinder Journalist Quotes & Sayings

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. They're worried about getting re-elected. — Jon Runyan

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. — Asa Gray

So why am I often miserable about what goes on here? Shouldn't I be happy, contented, and glad. — Anne Frank

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. — Albert Camus

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music. — Art Blakey

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day. — Aeschylus

The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable. — Barbara Johnson

Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes, plague, and pestilence? Had he not stood, like the Pompeian sentry, while the Citadels of the Plain fell to ruin about his ears? — Evelyn Waugh

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person. — Red Barber

She had made her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control.
Page 328 — Sarah Dessen

If there's one thing I know about women, it's that they have vaginas. — J. Richard Singleton

If you know something bad is coming, can't you plan to avoid it or try to do something differently?" said Charles.
Probably", said the Cartographer, "but then the good events would have no flavor. The joy you find in life is paid for by suffering that comes later, just as sometimes, the suffering is redeemed by a joy unexpected. That's the trade that makes a life worth living. — James A. Owen

Writing is really a way of thinking
not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet. — Toni Morrison

You always hear how female artists don't get along, how they hate each other - but that hasn't been my experience. — Sevyn Streeter