Garrett Graff quotes

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
-- Garrett Graff

#Thinking #People #Prejudice

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
-- Garrett Graff

#Influence #Very Positive

Bob Mueller's entire history is as a tenacious prosecutor. And so he will follow the Russia investigation wherever it leads. But the good news for Donald Trump is, he's also the only person perhaps in America who could end up declaring that there's no there there, and having people believe that.
-- Garrett Graff

#Believe #People #Prosecutor

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?