44+ Sally Quinn Quotes On Marriage, Her And And Marriage

Sally Quinn is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her work as a reporter and editor for the Washington Post. She is also the widow of former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sally Quinn on life, love, marriage.

Top 10 Sally Quinn Quotes

1. I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.
2. I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
3. The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
4. Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
5. I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
6. Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
7. Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.
8. Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.
9. I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
10. The important is not what you believe but how you behave.

Sally Quinn Short Quotes

• I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.
• Those who are religious or who have any beliefs have so much to choose from.
• Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.
• How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.
• So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.
• I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.
• When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.
• Everyone gets meaning in different ways.
• We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.
• Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.

Sally Quinn Famous Quotes And Sayings

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament. — Sally Quinn

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them. — Sally Quinn

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration. — Sally Quinn

I just had a thought that perhaps religion is so vibrant here is because of the melting pot aspect to our society. WE have so many cultures here in the US and they all bring something new to their religious experiences. — Sally Quinn

... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it. — Sally Quinn

Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing. — Sally Quinn

Everyone seems to be searching and yearning for answers whatever they may be. And that ends up being some kind of spiritual or religious belief. — Sally Quinn

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper. — Sally Quinn

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere. — Sally Quinn

When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet. — Sally Quinn

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche. — Sally Quinn

The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative. — Sally Quinn

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women. — Sally Quinn

Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism. — Sally Quinn

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them. — Sally Quinn

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were. — Sally Quinn

I would rather live in McCain's world than Obama's. But I believe that we live in Obama's world. — Sally Quinn

My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something. — Sally Quinn

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth. — Sally Quinn

I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories and myths to give their lives some meaning. — Sally Quinn

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians. — Sally Quinn

Religion is something that you need to do in silence. — Sally Quinn

One of the reasons the Europeans don't like the Muslims is because they are religious. Americans like the fact that they are religious. They just don't like the form it takes. — Sally Quinn

The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it. — Sally Quinn

Life Lessons by Sally Quinn

1. Sally Quinn's work demonstrates the importance of asking difficult questions and pursuing the truth, no matter the consequences.
2. She also shows the power of storytelling and the impact it can have on readers.
3. Her career also highlights the importance of staying true to yourself and your values, even when faced with adversity.