“One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.”
James Reston“If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.”
James Reston“This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.”
James Reston“The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.”
James Reston“Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.”
James Reston“One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.”
James Reston“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.”
James Reston Jr.“In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the stake. Dogs of God, Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors”
James Reston Jr.“James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes, great complex ideas, stretches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot.”
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon