"There is nothing so satisfying as to be……" — Robert Fisk

"There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect."

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35 Quotes by Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How…
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible…
I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't…
It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to…
The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families…
In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent…
War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total…
I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of…
And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority -…
And history s fingers never relax their grip, never leave us unmolested, can touch us even when we would never…
After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of…
Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist,

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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;… — Charles Babbage
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of… — Gaston Bachelard
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New… — Kevin Bacon
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take… — Alan Ball
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper,… — Hosea Ballou
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective… — Albert Bandura
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they… — John Banville
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are… — Gerry Adams
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends… — Henry Adams
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. — Henry Adams
Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a… — Roseanne Barr
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of… — John Adams

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