#rep

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#conservatives #democrats #distance #either #i

The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help. ↗

— John Woolman

#been #cry #did #distress #enough

To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#boats #camps #fields #getting #help

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#far #good #looking #looking good #partiality

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#america #arab #arab countries #countries #difference

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#culture #despair #different #fanaticism #gender

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving. ↗

— Steven Wright

#headlights #i #lights #like #looks

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#decided #eventually #had #i #just

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men. ↗

— William Wycherley

#call #honor #men #only #persons