Sally Quinn Quotes
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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.
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I would rather live in McCain's world than Obama's. But I believe that we live in Obama's world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.
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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.
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Those who are religious or who have any beliefs have so much to choose from.
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Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.
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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.
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When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet.
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The important is not what you believe but how you behave.
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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.
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How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.
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I think the Catholic and Protestant churches have become very stagnant.
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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.
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I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.
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Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
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We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.
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I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.
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This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
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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.
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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.
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The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
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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.
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So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.
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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.
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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.
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