Russell Baker Quotes

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

Russell Baker

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• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Think
  • Story

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Human
  • Potential

• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • Economic
  • Destruction

• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Innocence
  • Entitled

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Anger

• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• I don't want to be on the road all my life.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Life
  • Road
  • My Life

• A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Car

• Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Different
  • Purpose
  • Often

• I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Body
  • Mountain
  • Gym

• I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Better

• In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Think
  • New
  • Finding

• I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• I might have to do the London Marathon. I like crowds, so that is why I like the big marathons.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Why
  • London
  • Marathon

• The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Happy
  • Way
  • Seek

• Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Security
  • Policy

• If a man feared defeat, he would never give battle... Every victory is inevitably succeeded by defeat. It is the nature of our lives. A man might fight a thousand battles and emerge triumphant from every one; still, he will suffer defeat in the end, for we die and we are forgotten. If we cannot face defeat, we must live always, throughout our lives, in fear. For it awaits us all.

  

  Brian Ruckley
  • Man
  • Victory
  • Battle

• If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Parents
  • Years
  • Presence

• No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Hearts
  • Absence
  • Prone

• American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Victory
  • Policy
  • Communism