#pontificate

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat. ↗

— Harold Evans

#find #journalism #more #off #out

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no. ↗

— John Sununu

#answer #any #basic #chance #circumstance

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. ↗

— George Saunders

#aspire #die #fail #pontificate #posture

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

#come #curriculum #early #get #instead

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. ↗

— Roger Moore

#easy #luxury #peace #pontificate #relative

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#become #course #inclination #know #lawyer