Quotes to Explore

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Author : George Orwell

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don’t ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.

Author : Gwen Ifill