John Reith, 1st Baron Reith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.
-- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

#Pride #Thinking #Creating
I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.
-- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

#Too Late #Life Is #Late
By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.
-- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

#Giving #Principles #May

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
I take pride in my music, I feel like it actually does something for people personally, in their personal lives, so it's real music and it helps people get through things like I was able to get through things.
You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.
Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

John Reith, 1st Baron Reith famous quotes

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