Andrew Ferguson Quotes

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

Andrew Ferguson

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• We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Fear
  • Scary

• The Church was the preserver of the remnants of intellectual culture, the sole schoolmistress of the raw peoples. Her clergy long had almost a monopoly of education, and were the secretaries of the nobles, the chancellors and prime ministers of kings.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Long
  • Culture
  • Education

• Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People

• It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done anything that would make us second guess him, and hopefully we can keep on going.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Long
  • Done
  • Road

• What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Imagine
  • Awful
  • Automobile

• Every employee must be essential to the functions of the organization.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Organization
  • Function
  • Essentials

• Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Spiritual
  • Compassion
  • Patience

• Imagination is more valuable than information.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Imagination
  • Information
  • Valuable

• ... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Books
  • Hours
  • Leisure

• I never want fear to stop me from doing anything else in my life. I never want fear to make me say no again. I never want fear to be even the slightest problem for me. And if I ever have just a tiny fearful thought, I want to be able to say no to it immediately.

  

  Sadie Robertson
  • Fear

• If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Trouble
  • Stage

• I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Fun
  • Passionate
  • Dork

• You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters.

  

  Mirai Nagasu
  • Train
  • Nerves
  • Simulate

• Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.

  

  Ayad Allawi
  • Government
  • Results
  • Forming

• Every play should be 90 minutes. There would be so many more theatre-goers if plays were shorter.

  

  Eve Myles
  • Play
  • Theatre
  • Should

• I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • Passion

• If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Age
  • Light
  • Dark

• Journalists love to show their compassion.

  

  Bernard Goldberg
  • Compassion
  • Journalists

• It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Judgments
  • Old Man
  • Inspirations

• Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Football
  • Activity

• Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

  

  Andrew Ferguson
  • Journalists
  • Judgments
  • Incoherence