20th-century Journalist Quotes

Allah never changes a people's state unless they change what's in themselves

Haroon Siddiqui

During the entire period of occupation of Afghanistan, we were the country that provided the most support to the Afghans.

Hossein Shariatmadari

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

Art is a hideously painful business, you know. Pity me! Or at least buy me a drink.

Nobody can take away your future. Nobody can take away something you don't have yet.

Dorothy B. Hughes

Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.

Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading.

Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.

Ferdinand Mount

Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.

John Egerton (journalist)

Isolationism as a stream of thought was hibernating. It was rarely articulated, but passionately held, waiting for someone like Trump to lead it. Isolationists were called the silent majority in Richard Nixon's days — even though Nixon was an internationalist, who built a strong relationship with China. Trump knew how to exploit the silent majority's mix of racism, grievances and xenophobia. He appealed to the vast national community of chronic blamers, anxious to locate the cause of American problems in China, thereby executing a double play of racism and xenophobia.

Robert Fulford (journalist)

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

Colman McCarthy

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.

It doesn't much matter whether people care or don't care. What matters is that people change the world.

Elizabeth Kolbert

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

Luís Fernando Veríssimo

With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

Nicholas A. Basbanes

I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.

William Langewiesche

I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

There are Catalanists because there are Spanishers.

The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.

The fragmentation of armed groups is among our major concerns

Maurizio Giuliano

One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution.

A delectable sward, shaved as close as a bridegroom and looking just as green.

Basil Boothroyd

Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.