James Barrett Scotty Reston Famous Quotes
This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.
Half circus and half Supreme Court.
"How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack."
"An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past."
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
James Barrett Scotty Reston Quotations
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody."
Happy Gilmore
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Maurice Setter
"It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word."
Alexander Smith
"Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible."
Stanislaw Lem
"Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve."
Jules Verne
Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot
"A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go."
Andrew Schneider
"While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned."
Seneca
"A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger."
Euripides