Ntrac Quotes & Sayings

(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story), — David Halberstam

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations. — James Blunt

I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years. — Lev Grossman

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years. — Juan Cole

Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun, - part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal. — John Muir

What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people. — Tim Kreider

Unless he was one of the furiously successful minority, he was apt to be haunted by moments of brooding, too formless to be called meditation, and of yearning, too blind to be called desire. — Olaf Stapledon

But just because you can never reach it, doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for. — Norton Juster

The wind had a voice as it came over the waves, and it was sadder than the end. — Stephen Crane

Now, why did he have a hard time believing that? ... Because it would be the first time in your life that you ever won an argument with Lord Thick and Knotty Pate. (Morgan) — Kinley MacGregor

I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too. — Thomas Jefferson