Top 22 Tony Horwitz Quotes
#2. Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of nostalgia.
Tony Horwitz
#3. There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
Tony Horwitz
#4. John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.
Tony Horwitz
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.
Tony Horwitz
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.
Jess Walter
#14. The best you can do is catch an echo of the man. You can never reach out and touch him.
Tony Horwitz
#15. 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
#16. ISIS has brought down a Russian airliner. ISIS has now attacked a western democracy in - in France. And we do have a role in this. Not solely ours, but we must work collaboratively with other nations.
Martin O'Malley
#17. Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with.
Jon Pareles
#18. It is difficult to gaze in awe at the wonders of ancient Egypt with modern Egypt tugging so insistently at your sleeve.
Tony Horwitz
#20. I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.
Sheila Heti
#21. We can be, and we are called to be, good-news people - people who themselves are being renewed by the good news, people through whom the good news is bringing healing and hope to the world at whatever level.
N. T. Wright
#22. Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
Thornton Wilder
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