Top 31 Jonathan Alter Quotes
#1. War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this.
Brandon Sanderson
#3. The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics
Jonathan Alter
#4. In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.
Brennan Manning
#5. It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.
Jonathan Alter
#6. The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely directs the consumption of the state itself, but because a great proportion of the consumption of individuals is gained by its will and example.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#7. Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.
Robert D. Putnam
#8. The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.
Jonathan Alter
#9. The basic problem is with the business model of journalism. That business model is premised on the idea that talk is cheap and reporting is expensive.
Jonathan Alter
#11. Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.
Jonathan Alter
#12. Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.
Maxwell Bodenheim
#13. Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.
Jonathan Alter
#14. They always say girls mature faster than boys, but I don't think that's true because I think girls just are more mature than boys. We're always trying to catch up to them.
Rob Reiner
#15. Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron's ideal: the cultured thug.
Jonathan Bowden
#16. I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill
it finds its way.
Jonathan Alter
#17. I believe that there is a future in anything that one is vitally interested in.
Lou Henry Hoover
#18. If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service.
Jonathan Alter
#20. Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.
Rick Riordan
#21. Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual'.
Marvin J. Ashton
#22. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.
Paulo Coelho
#23. When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.
Jonathan Edwards
#24. Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.
Jonathan Alter
#25. With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.
Jonathan Alter
#26. In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the sounds of man, three miles away. The candle lit ... only someone stripped of awe can leave a launch untouched.
Jonathan Alter
#27. If it's easy for the government to learn about us, it should be easier for us to learn about the government, what they're doing.
Jonathan Alter
#28. I don't want to say something cheesy like 'home is where the heart is,' but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you.
Melissa Senate
#29. Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
Baltasar Gracian
#30. The key to fixing education is better teaching, and the key to better teaching is figuring out who can teach and who can't.
Jonathan Alter
#31. Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.
Christina Ricci
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