Edward R Murrow Famous Quotes
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom -- it's gone.
"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular."
"If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that Not really McCarthy's. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully."
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices."
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
"The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him."
"The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved."
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
"After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure."
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained."
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
Edward R Murrow Quotations
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop
"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."
James Earl Jimmy Carter Jr
"There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book."
Saul Bellow
What we plan we build.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri
"Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do"
Ronnie Shakes
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop
In wildness is the preservation of the world. - from Walking
Henry David Thoreau
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers
"To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want."
Ernest Hemingway