Benjamin Wittes Quotes

In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the 'Post', the 'Post' won the public service medal two years running.

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• To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Show
  • Resentment

• If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Character
  • American

• When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Soul
  • Culture
  • Spiritual

• I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Problem
  • Yourself
  • Calm

• The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Together
  • Leadership

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Time
  • Community
  • Serious

• I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Cook
  • How

• We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Business
  • Fashion

• When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Love
  • Girl
  • I Love

• I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Loved

• While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Think
  • Me
  • Hard

• Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Need
  • Nations
  • Divided

• When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• The only journey is the one within.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Journey
  • inspirational
  • Only

• Only in space did I realize how lucky I am to be Korean. Only in Korea could I have gone to space before turning 30 years old.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Space
  • Korean

• I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Comedy
  • Best
  • Language

• There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Powerful
  • Nothing
  • Writer

• I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Stories
  • Writer
  • Magazines

• He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Gives
  • Post
  • Fond

• I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it, to express clearly and economically and with focus and with purpose.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Purpose
  • Writer
  • Challenging

• We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab frozen dinners and McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Real
  • Simple
  • Moving

• In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the 'Post', the 'Post' won the public service medal two years running.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Writer
  • Public Service
  • Post