“I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to give a blurb for From Here to Eternity. It's there, in the Selected Letters for all to read, an example of a once great writer at his very worst. I doubt that he ever forgave Scribners for publishing James Jones in the first place. War, as Hemingway saw it, belonged to him.” GivingFirstsWarRememberDoubtSawsWorstExampleLettersEternityPublishingViciousSelectedGreat Writers Author:Larry McMurtry
“The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.” FirstsLinesViewsDoubtNewsConcernOrganizationBottomPoint Of ViewManagersJournalistNo DoubtOwnersBottom LineAllegiance Author:Bill Kovach
“Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep alive in the Eastern as well as the Western half of our continent those ideas of human dignity which Europe gave to the world. Let us therefore resolve to keep the lamps of freedom burning bright so that all who look to the West from the shadows of the East need not doubt that we remain true to those human and spiritual values that lie at the heart of European civilization.” WorldNeedsFirstsHumansWellsLooksHeartIdeasSpiritualLyingValuesHalfLibertyDoubtAliveDutyCivilizationShadowEuropeDignityWestWesternEastBurningResolveContinentsEasternLampsHuman DignitySpiritual ValuesBurning Bright Book:In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986 Source: In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986
“The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.” PeopleKnowsFirstsMeanLittlesNextDoubtGenerationsWaveNo DoubtBroadwayNext GenerationCrooksFinesse Author:Al Kooper
“No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.” FirstsCountryGovernmentFormFallDoubtExpressionIndustryInstanceNo DoubtSocialistDiscontentFall BackConductingGestapoSocialist Government Book:Churchill: The Power of Words Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.” FirstsWellsBookSelfFeelingsDealsCareersDoubtPagesHundredOvercomingNew BooksSelf-doubt Author:Dean Koontz
“It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the liberalism of the French Revolution. The French writers who laid its foundation had no doubt that their ideas could be put into practice only by a strong dictatorial government. The first of modern planners, Saint-Simon, predicted that those who did not obey his proposed planning boards would be 'treated as cattle'.” FirstsIdeasGovernmentWould BeStrongPracticeDoubtModernRevolutionFoundationSaintPlanningReactionsSocialismTreatedRememberedBoardsNo DoubtLiberalismCattleFrench RevolutionPlanners Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.” ThinkingYearsFirstsLooksFilmGuyBlackWhiteCareersDoubtDegreesBenefitsBallsMalesClockShirtsHatsProvenAngleBlack WomenT ShirtCompetentIncompetentWoodyTrajectoryClipBenefit Of The DoubtThermal Author:Dee Rees
“When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I wrote crumbled up, and then it became a self-destructive thing - when you begin to doubt yourself, when doubt turns into - it's sort of like impotence. Once impotent, you're forever impotent. Because you're always worried about being impotent.” ThinkingFirstsSelfTurnsForeverDoubtHappenedMonthsPeriodsEightThings HappenWorriedDestructiveImpotenceSelf Destructive Author:Rod Serling
“Iraq broke our back in terms of counterterrorism. There's no doubt about it. The first thing, though, that hurt us was the fact that the U.S. military was absolutely unprepared to do anything on 9/11 - or 9/12 or 9/13. And by the time we actually attacked Afghanistan, al Qaeda and the Taliban had dispersed.” FirstsFactsTermHurtDoubtMilitaryIraqBrokeNo DoubtAlsAfghanistanAl QaedaTalibanUnprepared Author:Michael Scheuer
“First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease.” FirstsDoubtDiseaseAnxietyPsychicsDoubt And Fear Author:John Assaraf
“Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.” WorldShouldFirstsHouseLeaderDoubtFashionRedCleanBudgetsInkDiggingFree WorldDigging Ditches Author:Marcy Kaptur