Jonathan Yardley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.
-- Jonathan Yardley

#Powerful #Real #Self
David [Halberstam] kept on doing what he did because he loved it. One of the obituaries I read quoted him as saying that he did journalism for the same reason the great Julius Irving did basketball: He loved doing it even when he was having a bad day.
-- Jonathan Yardley

#Basketball #Bad Day #Journalism
You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.
-- Jonathan Yardley

#War #Ignorance #Government
One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.
-- Jonathan Yardley

#Pet #Sincerity #Conviction
Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgeraldâ€™s masterwork but that it is the American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this countryâ€™s writers.
-- Jonathan Yardley

#Country #Reading #Fiction
Amis is a force unto himself There is, quite simply, no one else like him.
-- Jonathan Yardley

#Force

There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
I was once naÃ¯ve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

Jonathan Yardley famous quotes

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