Top 35 Horwitz And Horwitz Quotes
#1. Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#2. During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.
Tony Horwitz
#3. When Union litter-bearers climbed out of their trenches, four days after the assault, they found only two men still alive amongst the piles of stinking corpses. One burial party discovered a dead Yankee with a diary in his pocket, the last entry of which read: June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed.
Tony Horwitz
#4. With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
Umberto Eco
#5. You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.
Tony Horwitz
#6. We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.
Murray Horwitz
#7. Everywhere, it seemed, I had to explore two pasts and two presents; one white, one black, separate and unreconcilable. The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembrance of things past.
Tony Horwitz
#8. The least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to.
Trent Reznor
#9. I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
Princess Diana
#10. No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#12. Cook," the historian Bernard Smith speculates, "increasingly realised that wherever he went he was spreading the curses much more liberally than the benefits of European civilization.
Tony Horwitz
#13. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.
Isaiah
#14. I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.
Tony Horwitz
#15. Cook, judging from his journals, was not a pious man. A product of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, he valued reason above all else, and showed little patience for what he called "Priest craft" and "superstition.
Tony Horwitz
#16. John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.
Tony Horwitz
#17. There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
Tony Horwitz
#18. Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of nostalgia.
Tony Horwitz
#19. The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
John Wesley
#21. If two percent of all the films made in Hollywood are really artistically worthy - and I think it's a lot more than two percent - that's a pretty big percentage of things that will outlive their own generation.
Murray Horwitz
#22. The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.
Barry S. Strauss
#23. Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.
Murray Horwitz
#24. It is difficult to gaze in awe at the wonders of ancient Egypt with modern Egypt tugging so insistently at your sleeve.
Tony Horwitz
#26. Georgie hadn't known back then how much she was going to come to need Neal, how he was going to become like air to her.
Was that codependence? Or was it just marriage?
Rainbow Rowell
#27. In 1961, at age seventy, standing just four feet ten inches tall and weighing ninety-eight pounds, Kline became Disneyland's first Tinker Bell.
Jim Korkis
#28. I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.
Tony Horwitz
#29. I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.
Erica Brown
#30. If humans aren't smart enough to run their own lives, why should we believe that there are humans smart enough to run the lives of others?
Steven Horwitz
#31. We were raised Methodists," Sue said. "But we converted to the Confederacy. There wasn't time for both."
"War is hell," Ed deadpanned. "And it just might send us there.
Tony Horwitz
#32. The best you can do is catch an echo of the man. You can never reach out and touch him.
Tony Horwitz
#33. The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.
Murray Horwitz
