Shadid Quotes

#1. I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.

Anthony Shadid

#2. That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

Dana Spiotta

#3. As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

Anthony Shadid

#4. If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.

Anthony Shadid

#6. Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

Ida B. Wells

#7. In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

Anthony Shadid

#8. I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

Anthony Shadid

#9. Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

Anthony Shadid

#10. On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Anthony Shadid

#11. For it is love, that even after knocking you down on your knees, holds up your chin and makes you rise again, to become yet another better version of yourself.

Khaddam Ahmed Khan

#12. Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.

Anthony Shadid

#13. Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.

Vitruvius

#14. The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes - when we write small to say something big.

Anthony Shadid

#15. My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

Malcolm Gladwell

#16. One picture will have to be enough.
Just like
one day
will have to be
enough.

Lisa Schroeder

#17. I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

Anthony Shadid

#18. I wished for my fairy godmother, the good witch of the north, or some other bitch with a wand.

Jocelynn Drake

#19. If you use your clothes consciously they can become a way know yourself better and to live more consciously.

Glynis Mackenzie

#20. For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.

Evangeline Lilly

#21. I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. It's remote-control reporting in a way.

Anthony Shadid

#22. The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

Anthony Shadid