In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
BILL MOYERSCreativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
More Bill Moyers Quotes
-
-
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
BILL MOYERS -
I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
BILL MOYERS -
Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
BILL MOYERS -
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
BILL MOYERS -
There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
BILL MOYERS -
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
BILL MOYERS -
The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won.
BILL MOYERS -
Barack Obama seemed to think he could win over his enemies. He certainly seemed to believe too much in his own powers of persuasion. One thing’s for sure – he misunderstood the nature of his adversaries.
BILL MOYERS -
He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
BILL MOYERS -
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
BILL MOYERS -
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
BILL MOYERS -
What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
BILL MOYERS -
The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
BILL MOYERS -
Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.
BILL MOYERS -
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
BILL MOYERS