Quotes about news
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“Success only breeds a new goal”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

Success

“It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Idea

“Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.”

John Twelve Hawks book The Traveler

Source: Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Traveler (2005)

Life, Sleep

“The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?"
"The New York Yankees," Butch replied.”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Source: Dark Lover

World, Guy

“The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Source: Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay

Feeling

“Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

Books

“If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Learning

“What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”

Aimee Friedman (1979) American writer

Source: Sea Change

People, Home, Personality

“Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.”

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Namesake

Source: The Namesake

“… as long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel would always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers.”

Thomas Pynchon book Inherent Vice

Source: Inherent Vice

Life

“You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

World, Thinking

“No day is safe from news of you.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Letter to Fanny Brawne (March 1820)
Letters (1817–1820)

Smile, Kiss

“Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.

Beginnings happen because there are endings.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 22

Parting

“Does my new feminism make me look fat?”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

“Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

Sun

“his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night.
Percy Jackson”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Girl, Night

“… there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Life, World

“Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Happiness

“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

1755, p. 83
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

Life, Friendship

“He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

Way

“She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Beauty

“Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Smile

“Why on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars--new cars--that have automatic transmission. It'd be a million times easier."
Adrian shrugged. "I like the color. It matches my living room.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Cars, Color, Time

“We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Thinking

“But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.”

Marya Hornbacher (1974) American journalist

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

Love, People

“He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?”

Janet Evanovich High Five

Source: High Five

Birth

“Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Books, Light

“Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones. No matter how much you like that, it just isn’t the same.”

Jane Green (1968) British writer

Source: Second Chance

Life, People, History

“One thing I've learned about vampires--they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bloody Bones

Variant: I hoped he was right, but one thing I've learned about vampires-they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.
Source: Bloody Bones

Learning

“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”

Joyce Cary book The Horse's Mouth

Source: The Horse's Mouth

Wisdom, World, Forgiveness, Heart

“Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.”

Maria Dahvana Headley (1977) American writer

Source: Magonia

Time, Animals

“Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of.
Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Fight

“Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

Source: We Are Water

Love, Feeling

“as the shadows assume
shapes
I fight the slow
retreat

now
my once-promise
dwindling
dwindling

now
lighting new cigarettes
pouring more
drinks

it has been a beautiful
fight

still
is.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Beauty, Drink, Light, Fight

“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

Life, Feeling, Imagination, Past

“Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Heart

“It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.”

Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

Reading

“Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed ravens, trembling in their eagerness to catch & interpret every sound in the universe.”

Toni Morrison book Song of Solomon

Source: Song of Solomon

Universe

“Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Life, Feeling, Personality

“Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.”

Jimmy Breslin (1928–2017) American journalist and author

“A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.”

Michael Ende book The Neverending Story

Source: The Neverending Story

Time, Past

“But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?… aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Beauty, Flowers

“Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.”

Junot Díaz (1968) Dominican-American writer

Feeling, Training

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

Life, Personality

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”

André Gide book The Counterfeiters

On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage.
Often misquoted as "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Frequently misattributed to Christopher Columbus.
Variant: Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Source: Les faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters] (1925)

Time

“The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.”

Robert Greene book Mastery

Source: Mastery

“When conservative judges strike down laws, it's because of what's in the Constitution. When liberal judges strike down laws (or impose new laws), it's because of what's in the”

Ann Coulter book If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Law

“She loved you in the morning because the day was new.”

Zadie Smith book The Autograph Man

Source: The Autograph Man

Love

“Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you've prayed for and so richly deserve.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Change

“if you'd teach me to swear in russian, i might have a new appreciation for it”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

“Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“He nuzzled my neck, inhaling deeply. “Mmm. You smell so good.”

“Oh, yeah,” I said, smirking. “I call this new perfume ‘Le Jungle grime et tropical BO.’ ”

“Dirt and sweat. Very sexy.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Nevermore

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”

Italo Calvino book Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

Travel, Waiting, Past

“Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

“Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.”

John Irving book The Cider House Rules

Source: The Cider House Rules

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”

Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.”

Charles Baudelaire book La Fanfarlo

Source: La Fanfarlo

Suffering, Memory

“I TOLD MY NEW FRIENDS I was allergic to dismemberment. They just laughed and herded me toward the combat arena. This is why I don’t like making new friends.”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”

Celeste Ng book Little Fires Everywhere

Source: Little Fires Everywhere

People, Way

“When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos…”

Anne Fadiman (1953) American essayist, journalist and magazine editor

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Cats, Sleep, Indifference

“We heard the army before we saw it.
The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Football

“[M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).”

Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Loyalty

“Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.”

O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer

Last words, quoting a 1907 song by Harry Williams. (5 June 1910) Quoted in O. Henry Biography, ch. 9, Charles Alphonso Smith (1916).
Variant: Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.

Home

“There were drinks and food in full force, and some Moroi guy had a guitar out and was trying to impress girls with his musical skills—which were nonexistent. In fact, his music was so awful that he might have discovered a new way to kill Strigoi.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

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