Jessica Savitch Quotes

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

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• The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Passion
  • First
  • Unity

• Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Love
  • Yourself
  • Neighbor

• A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Professional
  • Poet
  • Objects

• You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Vote

• Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Storm

• I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Happy

• It takes a long time to become young.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Young

• Lovers lying two and twoAsk not whom they sleep beside,And the bridegroom all night throughNever turns him to the bride.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Night
  • Sleep

• It is necessary that every thing which is harmonized, should be generated from that which is void of harmony, and that which is void of harmony from that which is harmonized. ...But there is no difference, whether this is asserted of harmony, or of order, or composition... the same reason will apply to all of these.

  

  Aristotle
  • Reason
  • Difference
  • Order

• A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Truth
  • Lies

• When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • Long
  • Legacy

• Iranians have suffered economically under the U.S.-led sanctions.

  

  Bob Beckel

• Persuasiveness is really just about getting your ideas across without being forceful. It's a skill that can be learned and is useful for anyone who works in a team environment.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Team
  • Environment

• I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch 'Titanic,' and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Movie
  • Community
  • College

• Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.

  

  Alice Morse Earle
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Present

• Congress is more broken than ever. Congressman Will Hurd has quickly become part of the problem.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Broken

• Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

  

  Emma Goldman

• That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

  

  Chester W. Nimitz
  • Faith
  • Relax

• In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Band

• Im Gebirge der Wahrheit kletterst du nie umsonst: Entweder du kommst schon heute weiter hinauf oder übst deine Kräfte, um morgen höher steigen zu können.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Rock

• What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • For Her

• Souls are not designed to float around in thin air.

  

  Alex Chiu
  • Air

• When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Anchor