Top 23 Quotes About Minow
#1. It's easier to die when you have lived, than it is to die when you haven't. So I say to all young people, go make memories; beautiful memories. Because when the time comes to go, you won't go alone.
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
#2. On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew ... so dear, So fresh, so fleeting
Kobayashi Issa
#3. I hate that leaders have the power to rule over the weak, transforming them into something they are not. But is that really true? Or just an excuse we use to be weak and not stand up for what is right?
H.J. Lawson
#4. We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
Newton N. Minow
#5. The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.
Karen Armstrong
#7. On a visit to the space program, President Kennedy asked me about the satellite. I told him that it would be more important than sending a man into space. "Why?" he asked. "Because," I said, "this satellite will send ideas into space, and ideas last longer than men.
Newton N. Minow
#8. A raft or a scow, you know; and maybe you could hear a fiddle or a song coming over from one of them crafts. It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them,
Mark Twain
#10. We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.
Newton N. Minow
#11. Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.
Newton N. Minow
#12. He smiled. "And you liked what you saw."
Oh God. She had. She really, really had. She closed her eyes and wished for a big hole to swallow her up. "I hardly even noticed you were naked.
Jill Shalvis
#13. Every man, when he first sees light, is commanded to be content with milk and rags. Such is our beginning, and yet kingdoms are all too small for us!
Seneca.
#14. God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
John Ortberg Jr.
#16. In meditation we are continuously discovering who and what we are.
Sakyong Mipham
#17. Land of the Dead? Is that what you dream about?" she asks. "Boy who kills ghosts for a living?"
"No. I dream about penguins doing bridge construction. Don't ask why.
Kendare Blake
#18. When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.
Newton N. Minow
#19. Perhaps we know only by comparing, by drawing distinctions from and similarities to what we already know. But when we use our terms of comparison to shut off any understanding of our connections with one another as human beings, we risk becoming something less than human ourselves. (7)
Martha Minow
#20. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air ... and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a great wasteland.
Newton N. Minow
#21. What do we mean by the public interest? Some say the public interest is merely what interests the public. I disagree.
Newton N. Minow
#22. There are many, many details of action involved in the simplicity and sharpness of being in this very moment, here, now.
Chogyam Trungpa
#23. Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
Aimee Mullins
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