Quotes about news

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“No day is safe from news of you.”

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

“Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.

Beginnings happen because there are endings.”

“Does my new feminism make me look fat?”

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

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

“… 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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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?”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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.”

“[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).”

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

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

“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.”

“From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.”

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”

“Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book -and does”

“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”

“She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.”

“Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.”

“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that”

“Death is just a new beginning…at least in my religion. And extreme inebriation seriously helps. (Syn)”

“In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.”

“All this new stuff goes on top
turn it over, turn it over
wait and water down
from the dark bottom
turn it inside out
let it spread through
Sift down even.
Watch it sprout.

A mind like compost.”

“In a single, silent moment, his rage, his fear, his humiliation and helplessness, had fallen away. That morning, he believed, he was a new creation. Softly, he wept.”

“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”

“And I'm sure than in Poland, or somewhere, it is considered cool to drive a Porsche and wear necklaces and black silk, but at least back in Brooklyn if you did those things you were either a drug dealer or from New Jersey.”

“But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons”

“New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.”

“Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)”

“One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.”

“Believing everything she read
In the daily news,
(No in-between to choose)
She thought that only
One side won,
Not that BOTH
Might lose.”

“only through new words
might new worlds
be called
into order”

“Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.”

“… In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers…”

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

“Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of wolves, there lurked a memory of fathers that had eaten their new-born and helpless progeny.”

“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.”

“So Aphrodite married Hephaestus and the celebrity ship Aphrophaestus completely dominated Olympian tabloid news for like a thousand years. Did they live happily ever after? HAHAHAHAHA. No.”

“It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.”

“Today. This bright new day that awaits us”

“That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.”

“Life’s like that. As we grow and change, some things we’ve experienced before take on new meaning. It’ll happen for the rest of your life.”

“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”

“Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi”