"[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement."

-- Anna Quindlen

#Justice Quotes #Funeral Quotes #Balance Quotes

“In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization.”
“The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away”
“Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and in every respect unfinished; but they are truly valuable... they give the idea of a whole.”
“It can't be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.”
“Anytime you start a sentence with I AM, you are creating what you are and what you want to be.”
“I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.”
“They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.”

Source : John Ford, Terence John Bew Spencer (1980). “The Broken Heart”, p.34, Manchester University Press
“Reggae is a message of consolation; a message of salvation. The youth are going to the school and they have to listen to the words. The parents have to listen to the words. God has to listen to the words. So, we have to make it positive. If you sing nursery rhymes, it is nothing. You just blow up tomorrow, and the record dies at the same time. But if you give positive words, that song lives forever.”

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