Reston Quotes

#1. All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

James Reston

#2. Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

James Reston

#3. Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

James Reston

#4. Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the showbiz started. Maybe, in the end, there is no difference.

Peter Morgan

#5. The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

James Reston

#6. Asceticism, also called ascesis, is the practice of rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint and is performed as a spiritual discipline. Like

Randi Fredricks, Ph.D.

#7. The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.

Joseph James Ettor

#8. Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.

James Reston

#9. He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

James Reston Jr.

#10. Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.

Blake Mycoskie

#11. In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the stake.
Dogs of God, Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

James Reston Jr.

#12. In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

James Reston

#13. I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

Chief Joseph

#14. There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.

James Reston Jr.

#15. It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.

Sarah Parcak

#16. The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

James Barrett Reston

#17. Long ago, before England was cut up with pavement, or bisected by railways, there existed in the county of Lancashire a small village named Reston that never bothered anyone.

Kate Noble

#18. This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

James Reston

#19. In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

James Reston

#20. Jim Reston: And of course when that moment came
no words came to my mouth, and I shook his hand. Because if you've spent that long hating a man
in the end
a kind of relationship develops. An intimacy. Biographer and subject. Assassin and target.

Peter Morgan

#21. Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

James Reston

#22. By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.

Jane Austen

#23. A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

James Reston

#24. One of my pastor friends, and a local hero, is Mike Minter. Mike is the founding pastor of Reston Bible Church, where he has served for nearly four decades.

Mark Batterson

#25. If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

James Reston

#26. Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

James Barrett Reston

#27. Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.

James Reston Jr.

#28. One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work.

Colleen Atwood

#29. If it wasn't for werewolf cousins, there'd be far fewer fashion interns, It boys, graphic novelists, bespoke shoe boutiques, and sushi-haggis fusion restaurants in the world.

Alexis Hall

#30. James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes, great complex ideas, stretches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot.

Peter Morgan

#31. As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

James Reston Jr.

#32. I'm the happiest I've been in a while.. So blessed and thankful for the future, for release and to finally be happy for those I loved..

Selena

#33. A temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs.

D.H. Lawrence