I gave the impression of playing a role more than simply trying to deliver the news to the audience.
~ Walter Cronkite
That was the secret to his popularity.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror – to tell and show the public what has happened.
~ Walter Cronkite, That is what journalism is all about.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
~Walter Cronkite

There’s a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
~Walter Cronkite

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
~Walter Cronkite, On truth and New Stories

An incredible reporter and a great writer, but he had a terrible stutter, a terrible stutter.
~Walter Cronkite .. You don’t need to be great orator to be a great reporter.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror – to tell and show the public what has happened.
~Walter Cronkite

The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck
~Walter Cronkite

This opens the door on another chapter of history.
~ Walter Cronkite

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
~ Walter Cronkite

There’s a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
~Walter Cronkite

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
~Walter Cronkite

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We can Change!!!

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.

I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

My favorite:
We’re not going to baby sit a civil war.
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“Well, the going rate for change is not cheap. Big ideas are expensive.”

This is a Bono Quote on God: “All the best songs are co-written by God, y’know!”

“Celebrity is currency, so I wanted to use mine effectively.”
This is a celebrity quote by Bono.

“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”

“I believe in the kingdom come. Then all the colors will bleed into one.”

“What can I give back to God for the blessings he’s poured out on me? I’ll lift high the cup of salvation – a toast to God!”

“We’re not here today for a victory lap; we’re here to pick up the pace. Because AIDS is outrunning us,”

“Americans, Irish people, are good at charity. We like to give, and we give a lot, even those who can’t afford it. But justice is a higher standard.”
~Bono on Charity

“I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.”

“There are many side roads and back streets to rock ‘n’ roll, and most of us get lost down them at times.”

“I’m confident that President Bush has a real feeling for the AIDS pandemic. Essentially, what we’re asking for is a kind of Marshall Plan for Africa.”
~Bono is an activist on the HIV and AIDS issue.

“Home, hard to know what it is if you’ve never had one. Home, I can’t say where it is but I know I’m going.”

“One love, one blood, one life. You got to do what you should. One life with each other sisters, brothers. One life but we’re not the same. We get to carry each other, carry each other”

“But I’d be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I’d be in deep s—. It doesn’t excuse my mistakes, but I’m holding out for Grace.”

“I believe in the kingdom come. Then all the colors will bleed into one.”

“I’m not in a position to be seen as a spokesman for a generation. I mean, how can you be a spokesman of a generation if you’ve nothing to say, other than ‘Help!’”

“There are potentially another 10 Afghanistans in Africa, and it is cheaper by a factor of 100 to prevent the fires from happening than to put them out.”

“When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.”

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“Always do whatever’s next”

“When someone is impatient and says, “I haven’t got all day,” I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?”

“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”

“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”

“One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor”

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity”

“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

“Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it’s because at the moment they’re not actually dying.”

“If the cops didn’t see it, I didn’t do it!”

“There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.”

“When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands”

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This is a real nice one by Friedrich Nietzsche, “A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”

And this is a nice women quote by Friedrich Nietzsche,” Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

And this is what Friedrich Nietzsche had to say about artists, “An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.”

And a wisdom quote by Friedrich Nietzsche, “Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”

“One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.” Friedrich Nietzsche wouldn’t have realized how true he could be when he said that.

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

A real true and funny quote: “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

” All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”

“All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?”

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive”

“I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.”

“He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.”

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“Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on. ”

“Love is the only gold. ”

“Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love. ”
~ Alfred Tennyson

“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”

“Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.”

“‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”

“Brief is life but love is long.”

“Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes…”
~Alfred Tennyson

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“One that loved not wisely but too well”

“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”

“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”

“Speak low, if you speak love.”
This is a saying by Shakespeare that we should all etch in our minds.

“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. ”

“I honour’d him, I lov’d him; and will weep my date of life out, for his sweet life’s loss”

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ”

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none”

“My love’s more richer than my tongue”

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain!”

“If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die. ”

“The course of true love never did run smooth”

“I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss”

“They do not love that do not show their love.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

“There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.”

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”

“Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.”

“Love sought is good, but giv’n unsought is better”

“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”

“But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.”

No one could say love quotes like Shakespeare.. In fact I sometimes feel that it was Shakespeare who invented the notion called love.

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A saying on advice by Cicero, “Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.”

“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration”

A Friendship Quote by cicero, “A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

“Hatred is settled anger”

On Books, “A home without books is a body without soul. ”

“Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.”

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error”

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

A Life Quote by Cicero, “A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

A Freedom Quote by Cicero, “Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. ”

This is a saying on habits, “Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. ”

“Whatever you do, do with all your might”

I find this Cicero Quote very Motivating, “If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.”

Cicero on philosophy “There is nothing so absurd as not to have been said by a philosopher.”

“Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.”

“Time is the herald of truth.”

“To live is to think.”

“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”

“When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff.”

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“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally. ” So just because you hurt someone unintentionally, don’t think that it is OK…to hurt.

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. ” Was it Churchill who also said this?

“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. ”

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. ”

A Women Quote by Oscar Wilde, “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

This is a good one by Oscar Wilde on marriage, ” Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. ”

An Oscar Wilde Quote on Pessimism, “Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ”

“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you. ” Of course, you must never understand a work of art to appreciate it.

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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. ”

One more on Beauty, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
~ John Jeats Quotes on Experience.

“He ne’er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.”

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. ”

“I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”

A life saying by John Keats, “A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it”

One more quote on love, “Love is my religion – I could die for it.”

This is a quote on something close to his heart, Poetry, “If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all”

And here is one more on poetry and Life, “Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.”

A John Keats quote on Immortality, “I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here–how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality–I wish to live with you forever. ”

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.”

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”
~John Keats quote on Poetry
“It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.”
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