Cafaro Scholarship Quotes & Sayings

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy. — Leslie Jamison

The Istiqlal was powerful, which did not at all coincide with his conception of it, nor with the picture the organization painted of itself: a purely defensive group of selfless martyrs who were willing to brave the brutality of the French in order to bring hope to their suffering countrymen. — Paul Bowles

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. — Hamlin Garland

For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly. — Kevin Powell

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming. — James Van Fleet

Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped. — Stuart Rothenberg

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how? — John Burns

You do things just to irritate me, don't you?"
Smiling, enjoying himself immensely, and determined to give her a wonderful and relaxing weekend, Van pushed Irene's wet hair from her face. "Don't be silly, doc." He kissed her lips, nuzzled her chin. "Of course I do things just to irritate you. — Shelly Laurenston

The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it. — Giordano Bruno

. . . More octo . . .pi?' Thaniel said, knowing that it sounded wrong, though so did puses and podes. He tried to think where he had heard it last , but he did not often have business with more than one octopus at a time. — Natasha Pulley

Realistically, the chance of any book becoming a film is slim. — Kenneth Oppel

When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor. — Sean Harris