Joseph Lelyveld famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
-- Joseph Lelyveld

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His laughter... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.
-- Joseph Lelyveld

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By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'
-- Joseph Lelyveld

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If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.
-- Joseph Lelyveld

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American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
Josh: So, Toby, itâ€™s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

Joseph Lelyveld famous quotes

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