Quotes About Doublespeak

#1. Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health.

Rodney A. Smolla

#2. Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.

Jim Goad

#3. The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

Annie Jacobsen

#4. Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.

Larisa Alexandrovna

#5. You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

Jodi Picoult

#6. When people hear the word "beautiful", they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.

Brian Molko

#7. Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

James Dillehay

#8. I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

George W. Bush

#9. But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

Rob Sheffield

#10. For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

David Hume

#11. I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987.

Jim Cramer

#12. In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

Bill Gates

#13. Being colonized automatically makes you bipolar.

Sherman Alexie

#14. We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.

Joe Paterno

#15. I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay.
I can make it okay, myself.
Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world.
She'd lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she'd found herself.
And that would have to do.

L.J.Smith

#16. There is no secret formula
only a life committed to a close walk with God.

Dillon Burroughs

#17. I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

Chris Hemsworth

#18. L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.

Janet Fitch

#19. I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anne Frank