Article Quotes

• I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Women
  • American

• I don't know who did the hacking [through president election 2016]. The article is based on a lie that the R.N.C. was hacked. So the entire premise of the article is false. The sources are unnamed. And the report was inconclusive.The point is, though, we need to find out more facts about this situation. Then we can make intelligent decisions later, and you and I can have more intelligent conversation about what to do about it.

  

  Reince Priebus
  • President
  • Intelligent
  • Situation

• The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Joy
  • Gospel
  • Justification

• The purpose of an Article 32 hearing is for us to engage witnesses and discover facts. We ended up with a c.i.d. agent and no alleged victims to examine.

  

  Gary Myers
  • Purpose
  • Facts
  • Witnesses

• The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Showing

• It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It's weird, it's uncomfortable, but I don't see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Laugh
  • Changing
  • Pedicure

• I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.

  

  Elwood G. Norris
  • Accident
  • Inventor
  • Air Force

• I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Audience
  • Author
  • Choose

• A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Faith
  • Law
  • Weight

• No one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put in his speech or article. The expert worries about what he should take out.

  

  Edgar Dale
  • Message
  • Worries
  • Amauter

• To quote Helen Lewis the journalist, ‘the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism’.

  

  Bridget Christie
  • Feminism
  • Journalist
  • Helen Lewis

• So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going to be. The men are contemptuous of the women, and the women really need to organize. She writes an article which becomes an article she writes in different ways over and over and over again: Women need to organize. They need to create their own bosses. They need to have support networks and gangs so that they are a force.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Women
  • Force
  • Battle

• What is technically called the 'fungibility' of money, is its chief value as an article of commerce; and this fact could not long remain recognized, even by such a conservative class as legal officials.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Money
  • Value
  • Conservative

• It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.

  

  Eliza Acton
  • Food
  • Economy
  • Account

• A book, an article, could make noise, but ancient warriors before the battle also made noise, and if it wasn’t accompanied by real force and immeasurable violence it was only theater.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Violence
  • Battles
  • Warriors

• The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

  

  Susanna Moodie
  • Poetry
  • Article
  • Canadian

• We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Faith
  • Answer
  • Price

• The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Article

• In my senior year of high school, I read an article in 'Newsweek' about child soldiers in Sierra Leone. I felt a sense of shock - this was happening in the region where I'm from, and people don't know about it. I wanted to understand.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • High School
  • Soldiers
  • Article

• I think again we're way out of balance. We've got to rein in what has become almost an article of faith that almost anybody can have a gun anywhere at any time. And I don't believe that is in the best interest of the vast majority of people.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Faith
  • Gun
  • Article

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