Eric Sevareid Quotes

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Something

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Purpose
  • Ownership

• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Brother
  • Door
  • Successful

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I'm very independent.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Independent
  • Very

• The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Pain

• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Think
  • Me
  • Everyone

• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  

  Fay Wray
  • May
  • She
  • True

• I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.

  

  T.I.
  • Me
  • Doubt
  • Exist

• The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • History
  • Support
  • Goal

• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Islam
  • Stable
  • Ordered

• I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Doors

• I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

  

  Al Purdy
  • World
  • Trying

• Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• It's very important to feel good in my clothes. I like fashion that suits me. I don't take it too seriously.

  

  Charlotte Casiraghi
  • Good
  • Important
  • Fashion

• If you keep everything in the same palette of tone-on-tone neutrals, even a laid-back outfit of a slouchy sweater, jeans, and sneakers gives you a longer, leaner look.

  

  Brad Goreski

• We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

  

  Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum
  • People
  • Great
  • Lyric

• Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

  

  Eric Sevareid
  • World
  • Power
  • Honor