Nieman Lab Quotes & Sayings

There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected. — Richard Engel

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since. — Leo Kottke

The authenticity paradox: vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me and the first thing I look for in you. — Brene Brown

Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. "Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached," say the Vedas. "Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me," says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation? — Swami Vivekananda

My mother and Joe have a lovers' shorthand, an economy of gestures that comes when you are close enough to someone to speak their language. I wonder if my mother and father ever had that, or if my mother was always just trying to decipher him. — Jodi Picoult

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For every organization needs performance in three major areas: It needs direct results; building of values and their reaffirmation; and building and developing people for tomorrow. — Peter F. Drucker

Being afraid is the worst sin there is. — Jean-Paul Belmondo

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility. — Tony Kushner

What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer money ought to be used to pay for abortions. — Mitch McConnell