R.M. Donaldson Quotes

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver

It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.

"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when Im abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

I like doing Pilates because I get to lie down on the floor for the duration of the session.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

Joy is in the ears that hear.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

So when I cover the president, I try to remember two things: First, if you don't ask, you don't find out; and second, the questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

Any day alive in this world is a charmed life.

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.

Where do you get dreams like this?

He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.

My favourite trainers are Converse.

I don't wear lipstick when I'm not at work.

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling

When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

The President's very shrewd

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.