News Quotes - Page 4

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

People love to hear good news about their bad habits.

This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

Convert bad news to good news.

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be.

Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.

I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

We don't have a lot of Sikhs in France. We've got some. But we don't really hear much from them or about them. Which is good news.

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.

I was watchin' the news the other day, and I heard them talking about a criminal named Brian Regan same spelling and everything. He's gonna be in jail for the rest of his life. So I'm sitting there doing a crossword puzzle and all of a sudden I hear, It is unknown whether the charges against Brian Regan will lead to his execution. Guess I can put this down. Honey, did we pay that parking ticket?!

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change.

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

Read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with your picture.

You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.