What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.
John Gunther
Related You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. ROALD DAHL and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in Amer... GEORGE W. BUSH The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. LESLIE WHAT Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD He stood up for what believed .... Don't get confused by the method he used. His legacy is not about... TED BAILEY It was his scrappy personality that made him join the Marines, but what do you know when you're 18? ... DEAN CZERWONKA Today what was impossible is made possible and the rest is history SUNDAY ADELAJA Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT I don't think you're heartless, Mitchell. I just think you're different from me. I take certain thin... NOELLE ADAMS I don't think you're heartless, Mitchell. I just think you're different from me. I take certain thin... NOELLE ADAMS Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple... CRAIG GROESCHEL You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues. CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel. CAROL PLUM-UCCI I felt bad because of the kids and his family, but she was rarely there. He was really lonely. I mad... REBECCA LOOS Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ... BECKY ALBERTALLI (The military) wanted to give him the Bronze Star for his injury, and he wouldn't accept it. He said... BETH FRY C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But... ROY L. PICKERING JR. Almost universally, when people look back on their lives while on their deathbed [...] they wish the... RICHARD CARLSON This world was meant to be shared by everyone. What I want to ask is, "What happened? ANTHONY T. HINCKS what matter most ? _ you . only you.everyday every event would pass by through your vein LITYMUNSHI He wanted to cut his time. What he got was a whole bunch more time. What kind of mental machinery do... DANIEL CASTILLO We both know... that soon everything is going to end... ... This chat will be in the... DEYTH BANGER He was so versatile and crafty with his moves. He used everything he had to his advantage. That's wh... DAN OZIMINSKI Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends. ~WALT DISNEY When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they... GARY F EVANS... In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... In life, it is not a case of what you want but more like what you would like in a case of any decisi... GARY F EVANS... God has given you what makes you unique SUNDAY ADELAJA ...I had gone into my wife Akemi over and over and in so many ways that the thought alone made my he... SISTER SOULJAH That's what hookers get... ... DEYTH BANGER Your Pursuit Is What You Get SUNDAY ADELAJA You said that you are ill... but from from what? DEYTH BANGER What you show is what you represent SUNDAY ADELAJA You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars. SALLY GARDNER He was a big man, about 6-5. He had this leadership aura about him. You knew he was in charge. He wa... DALLAS GREEN He believed in what he was doing. He was protecting his country, and he was doing his job because he... MALIA FRY Don't ever think that regret is always a mistake, and mistake is always a regret because one day, Yo... KENT SOLATORIO LOPEZ what keeps me going is the fact that there is someone out there who wants to be in my "shoes"..yes,m... PHILLIP BUYONDO Strength is not a trait, it's a choice. BETHANY D HEAD We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that... RICHARD BELLZON I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up. "Yes," I sai... SARAH DESSEN I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do! JOHN PETERS ... I am you... what am I going to do?" - Backstrom DEYTH BANGER I don't know much about him. I'm just interested in finding out about him period. Just what kind of ... DWAYNE CURTIS I was never really about the money. Every business I've ever started has been more of a curiosity an... BLAKE MYCOSKIE Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ... FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ... Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him... FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him f... FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him ... FRANCIS BACON, SR. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him f... FRANCIS BACON SR. The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS [The most effective president, he told Forbes magazine 11 months ago, was Harry Truman, because] eve... RONALD REAGAN We already knew what his qualities were but what he showed at this level was excellent. He played a ... DANNY BLIND How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to c... HORACE WALPOLE He died for what he believed in, but his beliefs were different from mine. DOLORES PARKER For me, man, it was disappointing to see him go, but at the same time, I wish him all the best in wh... JONATHAN PAPELBON A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him. VIKRANT PARSAI My answer is, why not? ... It's what I love, it's what I know. Glen Sather was the best coach that I... WAYNE GRETZKY God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us.... DEYTH BANGER The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustai... DON DELILLO You are what you are, and what you are is not me! ANTHONY T. HINCKS He is a true hero to us here. He enjoyed what he was doing, and we're sure he gave it his all. CLAY COCKE I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not wha... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not wha... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTI... DEREK LANDY What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been ... KAZUO ISHIGURO His mom was everything. No matter where he was or what he was doing, if his mom called him he would ... BERNIE FEI I think he was very ahead of his time in his thinking because he could see what we were doing to Mot... ALICE BILLINGS Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't; and a sense of humour to console h... UNKNOWN I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I don't know what the problem is, what the deal is. I was ready to go. It was his call. He chose not... FRANKIE HEJDUK His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first t... DEJAN STOJANOVIC I've grown to love the man for what he stood for. His principles were beyond reproach. HOWARD QUICK Do what you love doing. JULIANNA MARGULIES Racist in our culture act with the same victim blaming behavior as those in rape culture. What was h... THEE AMAZING GRACE I communicated with him regularly on e-mail. He was always upbeat about the war and believed in what... BOB MARIANO I thought last year was a miraculous year for him. And he definitely earned my respect last year as ... DAVE DUNCAN If you're confused about what to do, it's a sign that your enemy is winning. TOBA BETA The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or h... BENJAMIN HARRISON He deserved to win. The match was very easy for him, ... His style of play didn't surprise me, but w... CARLOS MOYA You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was ... OSCAR WILDE Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He wa... MARKUS ZUSAK He was a fine referee, but what I am going to remember most is that he was a great human being. He d... JEAN BELIVEAU He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but ... URSULA K. LE GUIN He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought wa... MERVYN PEAKE Life is what you make of it. You have to decide what you want in life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitti... HENRY FONDA Looking at him she felt she knew what the people of antiquity had been like. Thirty centuries or mor... PAUL BOWLES Behold how the stream flows to the sea, and the flowing waters will return no more; thus, my brother... ALFONSO MARíA DE LIGUORI Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Gi... GILLIAN FLYNN Don’t waste your time trying to impress others to satisfy their ego. do what you love & love what ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA That taught us how to block a sword with two knives. But what if an ax man's coming at me?" Gi... JOHN FLANAGAN
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GUNTHER GRASS So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on ... GUNTHER SCHULLER If you are losing a tug of war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can... MAX GUNTHER Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me. GUNTHER SCHULLER The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever.Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still... GUNTHER GRASS We put a new coat of paint and a drop ceiling, but that's about it. PETER GUNTHER If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - ... GUNTHER GRASS She used to tell me she had no idea how Jack was getting so drunk. But we figured it out. Then he ha... PETER GUNTHER So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put... GUNTHER SCHULLER There was lots of time spent in negotiations with the Chinese military force that controls the natio... GUNTHER MATSCHNIGG Only the Social Democrats will truly defend the culture of the German people. GUNTHER GRASS The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and ... GUNTHER GRASS It's more of a coaching convention than it is to see players. GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM [Of course, there's always the possibility this collection of talent might never live up to the hype... GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM And thank goodness. He's vastly underrated as a runner and a receiver. He really helps them big-time... GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM You know what it's like in basketball when a guy's hitting 3-pointers and can't miss? When you get i... GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM We're trying to change the culture here. They got into a passive defense that believed that offense ... GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM Let's not talk about it. I might throw up while I'm talking. GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM If I were making the decision, I would have kicked it. GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM I feel real really good. I can call any scheme in practice and have confidence that they'll execute ... GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM It was mostly about his coaching philosophy and the way we want to approach the season. But the rest... GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM We were coming off the field on Tuesday, and (wide receiver) Dante Hall said to me, 'Gun, they're sm... GUNTHER CUNNINGHAM I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why ... GUNTHER SCHULLER I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autob... GUNTHER SCHULLER My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo... JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th... JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete... JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ... JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis... JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go... JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ... JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness. JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ... JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God? JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e... JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing... JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t... JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther... JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we... JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re... JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ... JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f... JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage. JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment. JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B... JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life. JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li... JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al... JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines! JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that... JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&... JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures. JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ... JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ... JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual. JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes. JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha... JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing. JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ... JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro... JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey. JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y... JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ... JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth. JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up. JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav... JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best. JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day. JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions. JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ... JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme... JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best. JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w... JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life. JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your... JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all... JOHN LOCKE It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr... JOHN LOCKE The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. JOHN LOCKE It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ... JOHN LENNON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal... JOHN LENNON I believe time wounds all heels. JOHN LENNON The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I... JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have... JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th... JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always... JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. JOHN LENNON All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat... JOHN LOCKE In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community... JOHN THORN I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ... JOHN BARROWMAN You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. JOHN MCENROE Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress... JOHN MELLENCAMP A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. JOHN LUBBOCK So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ... JOHN WILLIAMS Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. JOHN LYDON There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock... JOHN VARVATOS Get off your horse and drink your milk. JOHN WAYNE The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. JOHN MCAFEE I can never consent to being dictated to. JOHN TYLER There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! JOHN HANCOCK When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim... JOHN BOLTON Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd... JOHN BOLTON You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo... JOHN BOLTON Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. JOHN BOLTON Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the tw... JOHN BOLTON I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the '... JOHN BOLTON People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on ... JOHN BOLTON There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period. JOHN BOLTON North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons. JOHN BOLTON I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three... JOHN BOLTON A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get... JOHN BOLTON The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving. JOHN BOLTON I don't do carrots. JOHN BOLTON My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that sma... JOHN BOLTON Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. JOHN BOLTON Reform is not a one-night stand. JOHN BOLTON I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because t... JOHN BOLTON There is no such thing as the United Nations. JOHN BOLTON