Shattuck Quotes

#1. The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.

Nick Nolte

#2. I want to thank the President and the CEO of Constellation Energy, Mayo Shattuck. That's a pretty cool first name, isn't it, Mayo. Pass the Mayo.

George W. Bush

#3. The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.

Roger Shattuck

#4. The child exasperated Marianne with her endless obsession with possession. She seemed to have absorbed the national sense of aggrievement, as if she, personally, were the victim of some great unfairness.

Jessica Shattuck

#5. Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

John Shattuck

#6. In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.

John Shattuck

#7. I felt myself getting whiter ... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?

Don DeLillo

#8. Ellen had always loved the rain. She didn't understand why people rushed through it, avoided it and ducked out of it, but she was glad.

Shari Shattuck

#9. The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.

Carl Jung

#10. I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.

Lech Walesa

#11. I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.

Bertrand Russell

#12. For so long Marianne and Albrecht and many of their friends had known Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people's most selfish, self-pitying emotions and ignorance was an embarrassment for their country.

Jessica Shattuck

#13. You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

Henry Rollins

#14. She pictures love as a pond to be stepped into, swum around in, and then climbed out of and toweled off before getting too chilly.

Jessica Shattuck

#15. Awesome people come in shy packages.

Miriam Shattuck

#16. Donald Trump will make sure that any agreement with Iran meets the original goals of the U.N and our allies: a non-nuclear Iran.

Rudy Giuliani

#17. There is not enough air in the room for Marianne and Elizabeth to share. They have learned this the hard way, but acceptance of the fact has made life easier. Now they see each other twice a year, for a weekend in the early summer and for the American holiday of Thanksgiving

Jessica Shattuck