Jacob Weisberg Quotes

Obama is the rare Democrat who talks easily about faith and values and who does so without upsetting those offended by the mixture of religion and politics.

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• Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Great
  • Women
  • Look

• There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Going

• So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Working
  • Media
  • Out

• Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  

  Candace Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Reality

• Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Survive
  • Dress
  • To Survive

• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Mad

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Peace

• A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Important
  • Poetry
  • Modern

• In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

  

  Xavi
  • Football
  • Win
  • Legacy

• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Back
  • Bottle

• I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Rest
  • Started
  • Eleven

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • Blessing
  • Dalai Lama

• When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • You
  • Always
  • Young

• The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Childhood

• I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Fun
  • Desert
  • Ferrari

• I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Night

• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Science

• Who could believe in prophecies of Daniel or of Miller that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds?

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • World
  • Believe
  • Faith

• All are before me! I behold The House, the Brotherhood austere! - And what am I, that I am here? For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom: What dost thou in this living tomb?

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Truth
  • High
  • House

• The question 'Why white kids love hip-hop?' forces us immediately to deal with the historical weight of race in America. On the surface people see hip-hop and race as nothing new. I think the ways young white Americans are engaging hip-hop suggest something more.

  

  Bakari Kitwana
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Obama is the rare Democrat who talks easily about faith and values and who does so without upsetting those offended by the mixture of religion and politics.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Faith