Lyrian Race Quotes & Sayings

The rule of thumb for all news operations is that stories are assigned their importance on the basis of what affects or interests the greatest number of one's readers or viewers. Depending on the nature of the newspaper or broadcast, the balance between what "affects" and what "interests" is quite different. The first criteria of a responsible newspaper such as The New York Times is going to be that which their readers need to know about their world that day - those developments that in one way or another might affect their health, their pocketbooks, the future of themselves and their children. The first criterion of the tabloid is that which "interests" its readers - gossip, sex, scandal. — Walter Cronkite

We are all here, all the powers of the Ginen lives for all the centuries that they have been in existence, and we all fight. We change when change is needed. We are a little different in each place that the Ginen have come to rest, and any one of is already many powers. No cancer can fell us all, no blight cover us completely. — Nalo Hopkinson

I love doing research. It's like cheating, but with permission. — Greg Rucka

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in. — George Soros

ARE THE RECORDS OF JESUS' LIFE RELIABLE? — Ravi Zacharias

Early June, Providence, Rhode Island, the sun up for almost two hours already, lighting up the pale bay and the smokestacks of the Narragansett Electric factory, rising like the sun on the Brown University seal emblazoned on all the pennants and banners draped up over campus, a sun with a sagacious face, representing knowledge. But this sun
the one over Providence
was doing the metaphorical sun one better, because the founders of the university, in their Baptist pessimism, had chosen to depict the light of knowledge enshrouded by clouds, indicating that ignorance had not yet been dispelled from the human realm, whereas the actual sun was just now fighting its way through cloud cover, sending down splintered beams of light and giving hope to the squadrons of parents, who'd been soaked and frozen all weekend, that the unseasonable weather might not ruin the day's activities. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them. — Kahlil Gibran

A kid of your age - any kid - could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to? — Stephen King

I miss her. I miss her as I'd miss my sight if I were suddenly blind. I miss her as a tree must miss its wealth of leaves come midwinter. — Carrie Anne Noble

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness. — Bill McCartney

But if you hear the call to make your life about more than you and what you can contribute, you will have peace, not anxiety, when facing mortality. — Jeff Goins

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics. — Alan Alda

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it. — Alicia Keys

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word. — Simone Weil