Martha Gellhorn Quotes

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

Martha Gellhorn

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• For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Effort
  • Same

• Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Career
  • Enjoy
  • motivation

• We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Positive
  • Possible
  • Negative

• I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Good
  • Never
  • Mayor

• Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Party
  • Republican

• We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Culture
  • Logic
  • Islamic

• For the devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle initial was X. Face like cottage cheese clawed with a fork.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Long
  • Taken
  • Devil

• Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Guilty
  • Innocent
  • Mercy

• I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Up
  • Important
  • Women

• In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • World
  • Die

• I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

  

  Jason Fried
  • Different
  • Important
  • Why

• The subject matter of the show, 'Cabaret,' was more than risky. And the emcee I would be playing didn't have a single line of dialogue. Still, it was full of possibilities, and it was mine.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Single

• It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Up
  • Country
  • Words

• I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.

  

  David Mackay
  • Space
  • Door
  • Walking

• History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • History
  • Moral
  • Silence

• I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

  

  Emily Bronte

• When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Work
  • Great
  • Challenge

• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Friends
  • Adversity

• The people who will finally decide will not be the British Government or the Spanish Government, but the people of Gibraltar in a referendum, ... That was a solemn undertaking given in 1969 to the people of Gibraltar. We absolutely stand by it.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Spanish
  • British Government

• Ironically, though our society of affluence brings safety and stability, it doesn't bring psychological health. As wealth goes up, suicide and depression rates tend to go up. I read one study that compared women in North America with women in Nigeria, and the group with the highest rates of depression was urban North American women, which is the wealthiest. Now, there are obviously huge stresses that come with poverty, but the poorer the society, the more collaborative people have to be.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Safety

• Your brand's power lies in dominance. It is better to have 50% of one market, instead of 10% of five markets.

  

  Al Ries
  • Market
  • Brand
  • Dominance

• A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Job
  • Career
  • Hate

• 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Being
  • Outsiders
  • Vine

• Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Outsiders
  • Bureaucracy
  • Hostile