Quotes of Theodore H. White - somelinesforyou

“ To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them — this is of the essence of leadership. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps-they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps-they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. ”

- Theodore H. White

“ Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps-they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ”

- Theodore H. White
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