James Reston Quotes

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

James Reston

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• I don't need any nicknames.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Need
  • Any
  • Nicknames

• A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Single

• The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • House
  • Freedom

• Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Mind
  • Own
  • Property

• I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

  

  Wale
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Pride

• I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Mean
  • Dirt
  • Umpire

• The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • People
  • Help
  • Hurt

• I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • People
  • World
  • College

• When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Beautiful
  • Cool
  • Selection

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Book
  • Rather
  • Million

• We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Beauty

• I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Yourself

• Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Together
  • India

• I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Potent
  • Vigorous
  • Virile

• As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Good
  • Work
  • Better

• When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Work
  • Space
  • Looking

• I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please. That's how I know it doesn't exist.

  

  Willow Smith
  • Mean
  • Stupid
  • Please

• The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.

  

  Mike Gallagher
  • Important
  • American
  • History

• The numbers in women in rock 'n' roll and metal are pretty much growing a lot, which is a great thing.

  

  Maria Brink
  • Growing
  • Thing
  • Numbers

• The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Poetry
  • Touch

• We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • High

• This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

  

  James Reston