Best Covering Thoughts
283 Covering quotes by 261 unique authors
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Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.
— Phil Donahue
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why,…
— Meister Eckhart
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Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
— Henry Ford
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If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running…
— Charles Krauthammer
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When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant,…
— Charles Kuralt
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Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
— George R. R. Martin
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I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already…
— Theresa May
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You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything…
— Mehmet Oz
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Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
— Jean Paul
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Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.
— Jean Racine
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of…
— Dan Rather
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Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of…
— Dan Rather
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I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns,…
— Dan Rather
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By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.
— Jessica Savitch
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I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer,…
— John Tesh
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The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting…
— Helen Thomas
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As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the…
— Lewis Thomas
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Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want…
— Ville Valo
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When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be…
— Geoff Mulgan
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And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he…
— Charles Dickens
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And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds…
— Guy de Maupassant
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Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering…
— Richard P. Feynman
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This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay…
— Betty Smith
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