Reston Quotes & Sayings

Jim Reston: And of course when that moment came
no words came to my mouth, and I shook his hand. Because if you've spent that long hating a man
in the end
a kind of relationship develops. An intimacy. Biographer and subject. Assassin and target. — Peter Morgan

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. — James Reston Jr.

When I am longing for love, every rose is the expression of my soul. — Debasish Mridha

As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to understand things. No bad guy looks in the mirror every morning and says, boy, I'm gonna be a real bad guy this morning. He goes after his own what he's after, just like us good guys. You kind of have to take a stand and, a lot of times, you have to take the writer's stand or the stand of the character this writer has created. — Michael McKean

War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine — Eric Pianka

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. — James Reston

I will live to see tomorrow's sunset. Make no mistake. I swear. I will live to see as many sunsets as it takes. And I will kill you. With my bare hands. — Renee Ahdieh

There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both. — James Reston Jr.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top. — James Reston

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. — James Reston

According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life. It is important to find 'the truth for me'. — Jostein Gaarder

Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the showbiz started. Maybe, in the end, there is no difference. — Peter Morgan

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides. — James Reston

Long ago, before England was cut up with pavement, or bisected by railways, there existed in the county of Lancashire a small village named Reston that never bothered anyone. — Kate Noble

One of my pastor friends, and a local hero, is Mike Minter. Mike is the founding pastor of Reston Bible Church, where he has served for nearly four decades. — Mark Batterson

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology. — James Reston

I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling. — Hari Kondabolu

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. — James Reston

Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins. — James Reston Jr.

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. — James Barrett Reston

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime. — James Reston Jr.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. — James Reston

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it. — James Barrett Reston

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle. — Chazz Palminteri

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out. — James Reston

In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the stake.
Dogs of God, Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors — James Reston Jr.

The degree to which age was an issue in 1980 was illustrated by a pro-Bush scenario sketched out by James B. "Scotty" Reston of The New York Times: "George Bush's hope is that Messrs. Reagan and Connally will knock each other out because they're too old and that the party will have to turn in a convention deadlock to younger men. — Jon Meacham

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news. — James Reston

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in. — James Reston

Good, evil - it all becomes blurred. You go far enough and everything turns to grey. And the power Isaac, you don't understand. The power I have now - I can't let it go. It's in my blood, it's right there in my soul. I can't let it go. — Matthew Head

one of the reasons I'm talking to you now is to tell you that whatever you may be planning, you must not break the law. Since I have just now stepped out of this room and any voice you may be hearing cannot possibly be mine, I must however point out to you that there are times when the law may be somewhat ... flexible. — Terry Pratchett

James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes, great complex ideas, stretches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot. — Peter Morgan

Pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you're mean. — Katie Holmes

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. — James Reston

One animal died and, after it tested positive for Reston virus, forty-nine others housed in the same room were "euthanized" as a precaution. (Most of those, tested posthumously, were negative.) Ten employees who had helped unload and handle the monkeys were also screened for infection, and they also tested negative, but none of them were euthanized. — David Quammen

Be the hero of your own story. You are born to turn you mess into a message and the test into a testimony. — Farshad Asl