Top 33 Reston Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.
James Barrett Reston
#7. 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
#8. This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
James Reston
#9. In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
James Reston
#10. Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
James Reston
#11. 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
#12. A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
#13. If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
James Reston
#14. Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.
James Barrett Reston
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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.
#19. 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
#20. It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.
Sarah Parcak
#21. 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.
#22. I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
Chief Joseph
#23. In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
James Reston
#24. 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.
#25. Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.
Blake Mycoskie
#26. He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.
James Reston Jr.
#27. Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.
James Reston
#28. The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.
Joseph James Ettor
#29. 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.
#30. The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
#31. Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
James Reston
#33. All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
James Reston
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