Top 42 John Pomfret Quotes
#1. God promises to open the door when we knock, and to always welcome us back into his love, no matter how far we have strayed.
Mary C. Neal
#2. I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.
John Pomfret
#3. And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
John Pomfret
#4. Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
John Pomfret
#5. A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.
John Pomfret
#6. And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.
John Pomfret
#7. In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
John Pomfret
#8. It could be Paris. It could be Rio de Janeiro. It could be anywhere but home: someplace, anyplace, disorienting enough to make him notice what he wouldn't otherwise see. (The medicinal benefits of disorientation can never be overestimated.)
Bill Buford
#9. This just means so much to me!I'd like to thank all the little people I crushed on my way to the top
Robin Benway
#11. I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.
John Pomfret
#12. I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.
John Pomfret
#13. I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.
John Pomfret
#14. Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood.
Erma Bombeck
#15. Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.
John Pomfret
#16. The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.
Martin McGuinness
#17. But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.
John Pomfret
#18. I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests.
John Pomfret
#19. I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have.
Demi Moore
#20. When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.
John Pomfret
#21. I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.
John Pomfret
#22. Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
John Pomfret
#23. Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
Tara Brach
#25. If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.
Paul Strand
#26. I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
John Pomfret
#27. I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.
John Pomfret
#28. My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
John Pomfret
#29. You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
Guy De Maupassant
#30. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Salmon P. Chase
#31. One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.
John Pomfret
#32. When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
John Pomfret
#33. The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
John Pomfret
#34. For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.
John Pomfret
#35. Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
John Pomfret
#36. Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.
John Pomfret
#37. How hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.
Lauren Kate
#38. The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.
John Pomfret
#39. I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.
Brenda Lee
#40. There are a lot of other people out there that some of us wish had run for President, but they didn't. I think Mitt Romney would be a fine President, and he'd be way better than the guy who's there right now.
Marco Rubio
#41. To America's founders, China was a source of inspiration. They saw it as a harmonious society with officials chosen on merit, where the arts and philosophy flourished, and the peasantry labored happily on the land.
John Pomfret
#42. The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
John Pomfret
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