Bob Woodward Quotes

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

Bob Woodward

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• I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Women
  • America
  • Visionary

• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Promise

• Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Prosperity
  • Measure
  • Bear

• I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Heaven

• I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • Done
  • Pride

• I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Time
  • Great
  • Country

• I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Writing
  • Questions
  • Without

• I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Suicide
  • Concerned
  • Soldiers

• Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Best
  • Young
  • West

• The stars are silent.Voyager among dark harbors, I listen, but the midnight wind carries only the sound of trees and water lapping against the gunwale and the solitary cry of the night swallow.There is no dawn. No searing sun rises in east or west. The rocks over Calumal do not silver, and the great round world slides through the void.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • World
  • Great
  • Night

• 'Boast not my fall (he cried), insulting foe! Thou by some other shalt be laid as low; Nor think to die dejects my lofty mind; All that I dread is leaving you behind! Rather than so, ah let me still survive, And burn in Cupid's flames - but burn alive.'

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Mind
  • Die
  • Fall

• Our economy has been at risk by investment schemes aimed at making not just a few, but many extra dollars, and we need to start insisting on the right rules and transparency so this doesn't happen again.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Risk

• The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by a lorry if I ate as many salted peanuts as I would like to.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Sweet

• The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.

  

  Edward C. Prescott
  • Good
  • Mad
  • Chinese

• There are times I'd like to be incognito, be someplace where I might not stand out.

  

  Anne Donovan

• Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Song

• The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Women
  • Church

• If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• Since trifles make the sum of human things,And half our misery from our foibles springs.

  

  Hannah More

• I want 'Dawn' to play like a cowboys and Indians movie.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Movie

• Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

  

  Bob Woodward