"What is life? It departs covertly. Like a……" — John Gunther
"What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him."
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19 Quotes by John Gunther
John Gunther has 19 quotes on this site.
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He was trying to save both his faces.
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Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
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The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who…
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France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.
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Live while you live, then die and be done with.
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I have so much to do! And there's so little time!
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What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his…
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Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa
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God is what's good in me.
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New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean…
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The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But…
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More Covertly Quotes
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one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can…
— Horace Rowan Gaither
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If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it…
— Philip Slater
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The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own…
— Ravi Zacharias
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At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest,…
— Walt Whitman
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In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.
— Rumi
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The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or…
— Tom Robbins
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What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their…
— John Irving
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Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving…
— Kate Morton
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born…
— Olive Schreiner
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