News Current Affairs

Famous quotes containing the words news, current and/or affairs:

    “It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.”
    —Gail Sheehy (b. 1937)

    “To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)