Bahadori Reston Quotes

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. ~ James Reston, Jr.

Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. ~ James Reston

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime. ~ James Reston, Jr.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ~ James Reston

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. ~ James Reston

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides. ~ James Reston

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. ~ James Barrett Reston

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in. ~ James Reston

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.

There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both. ~ James Reston, Jr.

If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology. ~ James Reston

Long ago, before England was cut up with pavement, or bisected by railways, there existed in the county of Lancashire a small village named Reston that never bothered anyone. ~ Kate Noble

One of my pastor friends, and a local hero, is Mike Minter. Mike is the founding pastor of Reston Bible Church, where he has served for nearly four decades. ~ Mark Batterson

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

One animal died and, after it tested positive for Reston virus, forty-nine others housed in the same room were "euthanized" as a precaution. (Most of those, tested posthumously, were negative.) Ten employees who had helped unload and handle the monkeys were also screened for infection, and they also tested negative, but none of them were euthanized. ~ David Quammen

The degree to which age was an issue in 1980 was illustrated by a pro-Bush scenario sketched out by James B. "Scotty" Reston of The New York Times: "George Bush's hope is that Messrs. Reagan and Connally will knock each other out because they're too old and that the party will have to turn in a convention deadlock to younger men. ~ Jon Meacham

War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine ~ Eric Pianka