A Quotes
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“A newly defined market will require either new capabilities or a new focus applied to current capabilities.”
Source: Business Paradigm Shifting: A Quick 6-Step Guide to Remaining Relevant as Markets Change
“A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.”
Source: Who will tell the people: the betrayal of American democracy
“A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together".”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“A newly single friend discovered the Internet. Spent
much of the 90s planning double dates. I was a
regular plus-one. He would have a different date each
night. Mine was always the same. A friend that lived
on the way to town. We wouldn't call ahead. Just head
over to her place. She'd put on glitter lip gloss and be
ready to go. We went on over 20 dates this way. Nights
in the backseat sharing Taco Bell. Years pass. She has
a question – "With all those dates... were we... dating?"
We decide that we probably were. This is just how
things work at times. You live your life. Then
understand it later.”
Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale
“A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.”
“A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.”
“A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.”
“A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.”
“A newspaper article predicted that we would no longer see any mountain peaks, seas, or adult bodies that were whole in twenty years. We had grown accustomed to these horrifying speculations, the same way we read about faraway countries with long and foreign-sounding names wrecked by war, earthquakes, storms, and massacres. There would be a moment when we fell into wordless grief, but with the turn of a page, we would get inundated by job and real-estate listings and restaurant advertisements again. People weren’t indifferent; it was just that, for those of us who lived here, the future always felt so surreal.”
“A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.”
“A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.”
“A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.”
“A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.”
“A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.”
“A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.”
“A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.”
“A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.”
Source: Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography
“A newspaper is an adviser who does not require to be sought, but who comes of his own accord, and talks to you briefly every day of the common wealth, without distracting you from your private affairs.”
“A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.”
Source: Jim Bishop, reporter
“A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.”
“A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.”
“A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.”
“A newspaper man I know, who was stationed in London during the war, says tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for. I told him I’d go looking for the England of English literature, and he said: “Then it’s there.”
Source: 84, Charing Cross Road
“A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars”
“A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does.”
“A newspaper photograph showed an older man and a younger man, both in dark suits, shaking hands. In the young one, bowing to the older one, I recognized myself. I was graduating from school, and was getting a prize from the principal at the ceremony. That was a long time after Hanna had left the city.”
Source: The Reader
“A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.”
“A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.”
“A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are
but with the way they ought to be.”
“A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well”
“A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.”
“A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.”
“A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.”
“A Newsweek poll said if the election were held today, John Kerry would beat Bush 49 percent to 46 percent. And today, President Bush called Newsweek magazine a threat to world peace.”
“A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.”
Source: Works of Samuel Johnson
“A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.”
“A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.”
“A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.”
“A nice cry is often needed to unwind. Even if you don’t have a nose for crying, blinking back tears is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“A nice fire inside—surrounded by your loved ones. What could be nicer? You do love me, don't you Chester? It's okay. I know you love us even if you can't say you do. But why can't you say it? Please Chester—tell me you love me. I'm your mother—if you can't love me, who can you love?”
Source: I Never Liked You: A Comic Strip Narrative
“A nice God you've got, if man created him in his image and likeness.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“A nice guy dreams of being the hero. A good man is okay looking like the villain.”
“A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.”
“A nice pair of Jimmy Choos never hurt anyone.”
Source: A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages
“A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.”
“A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly.”
Source: The Hobbit
“A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.”
“A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.”
Source: The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely
“A nice thing about being 40 is that you're not a kid about your understanding of sex or sexuality anymore.”