Canadian Journalist Quotes

Cory Doctorow
Robertson Davies
Irshad Manji
Morley Safer
Pierre Berton
Barbara Frum
Mark Steyn

We must learn to accept other people as they are — including their inability, or unwillingness, to accept us as we are.

Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.

It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.

Erastus Wiman
Erastus Wiman
Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.

Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.

The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion.
Rage.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn
Materia had been just six when they docked in Sydney Harbour and her father said, 'Look. This is the New World. Anything is possible here.' She's been too young to realize that he was talking to her brother.

Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.

I await thee as hills wait the morning,
I desire thee as eagles the storm...

Constance Lindsay Skinner
Constance Lindsay Skinner
Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

Morley Safer
Morley Safer
According to accepted newspaper clichés, we all go down fighting. The other day I even read that an 18-month-old baby had died after a long battle with cancer. That has become the mandatory phrase for all who expire, disease-ridden. They battled valiantly; they lost. When I finally depart I hope somebody will write, instead, that I died after a long battle with life.

Pierre Berton
Pierre Berton
The animals pale, the shine of the fur is lost,
bleached are their living bones.
About them watch
as through a mist, the pious prosperous ghosts.

In Islam's golden age, so much progress was made that it became the basis of the European Renaissance. We Muslims have to change ourselves, that's the main difference. We can't keep blaming America or Israel for our misery.

Irshad Manji
Irshad Manji
For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

I've spent too many years explaining who and what I am repeatedly, so as of this moment I officially secede from both races. I plan to start my own separate nation. Because I am half Ojibway and half Caucasian, we will be called the Occasions. And of course, since I'm founding the new nation, I will be a Special Occasion.