Quotes of: Orwell Keyword

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

J. K. Rowling

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

Simone Weil

America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

P. J. O'Rourke

The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.

Roger Rosenblatt

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

Sue Monk Kidd

I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training wheels on for writing.

Hugh Howey

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Jim Harrison

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

Simon Van Booy

My husband has said even he doesn't know my politics. In the nonromantic-compliment category, that's a good one.

Diane Sawyer

When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

Heather Brooke

Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!

Jennifer Armintrout

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

Calvin Trillin

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

John Avlon

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

James Surowiecki

When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.

Tina Brown

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

William Henry Hudson

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Elizabeth Moon

We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves.

Gwen Ifill

A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

Howard Rheingold