Jack Newfield Quotes

#1. It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

Jack Newfield

#2. I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.

Jack Newfield

#3. I don't fight for nobody else because Don King has made me money. Yet I hear people saying Don King is exploiting me. I made $15.5 million with Don. How would you like to be exploited and make $15.5 million?

Jack Newfield

#4. Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

Jack Newfield

#5. There are few truths in an uncertain world, but here's one; this aint Kentucky!

Verne Lundquist

#6. Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.

Ann Brashares

#7. in life every thing comes with a price even freedom

Steven Barnes

#8. But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

Jack Newfield

#9. A privateer learns to press any advantage."
"And a prince?"
"Princes get used to the word yes.

Leigh Bardugo

#10. There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country.

Pat Buchanan

#11. Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

Jack Newfield

#12. All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

Jack Newfield

#13. 1. The desperate Jews - their spirits in my lap as we sat on the roof, next to the steaming chimneys.
2. The Russian soldiers - taking only small amounts of ammunition, relying on the fallen for the rest of it.
3. The soaked bodies of a French coast - beached on the shingle and sand.

Markus Zusak

#14. I've always thought of myself as shy.

Nicholson Baker

#15. His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.

Jack Newfield

#16. I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.

Jerry Stahl

#17. The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.

Jack Newfield

#18. There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually
we drank.

Ringo Starr

#19. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Paulo Coelho

#20. Yes, whatever happened, happened; but what happens now is up to you. You can respond from ego, ensuring pain, or you can respond from spirit, ensuring a miracle.

Marianne Williamson

#21. He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

Jack Newfield

#22. I only like boutiques.

Jane Birkin

#23. The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

Karl Barth

#24. To the timid soul, nothing is possible.

John Bach