English Quotes

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

When you make a bet, you're saying something.

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

I'm good at reading people.

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

I hate writing.

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.

But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.