Quotes of: Whitman Keyword

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

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

William S. Paley

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

Harsha Bhogle

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

Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.

Kirsty Gallacher

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

Rebecca Solnit

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

Gail Collins

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

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

My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.

Lowell Bergman

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

Neil Cavuto

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Bob Woodward

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

Maria Bartiromo

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

E. W. Howe

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

E. W. Howe

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Frederick William Faber

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

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