A. M. Rosenthal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
-- A. M. Rosenthal

#Lying #Silence #Important
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
-- A. M. Rosenthal

#Writing #Swagger #Stories
But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.
-- A. M. Rosenthal

#Strong #Team #Order
OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
-- A. M. Rosenthal

#Elephants #Making Love #Want
Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.
-- A. M. Rosenthal

#Dream
The very best kind of Saddam Hussein is the very dead kind.
-- A. M. Rosenthal

#Hussein #Kind
Silence is a lie. Silence has a loud voice. It shouts, "Nothing important is happening - don't worry." So when something important IS going on, silence is a lie."
-- A. M. Rosenthal

#Lying #Loud Voices #Worry

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.
The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.
Silence is a text easy to misread.
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.
Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

A. M. Rosenthal famous quotes

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