NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn’t fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America. (Juan Williams)
What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse. Not being open about it doesn’t make it go away. And because it’s true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn’t there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it. (Eugene T. Gendlin, Focusing)
A hero is not measured by the lives that he has saved. A hero is measured by the number of the dead that he did not join (Robert J.A. Gilbert, Men of Renown)
Write until your fingers break. It may be the cure for everything (Kelly O’Connor McNees)
It ain’t time to worry yet. I’ll let you know when (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird)
You’re not the only one in this relationship who loves achallenge,” he says. “And just so you know for the future, I like my double-chocolate chipcookies warm and soft in the middle . . . and without magnets glued to them (Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction)
Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we’ve lost our manufacturing, we’ve lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food (John Boozman)
Consistent, Timely encouragement has the staggering magnetic power to draw an immortal soul to the God of Hope. The one whose name is Wonderful Counselor (Charles R. Swindoll)
Sometimes i wish that I was a man so I could tell haters to ‘blow me (Marla Buchanan)
Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit (Mike Corbett)