Quotes of: Hunters Keyword

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

Laurie Garrett

By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.

Stacy Schiff

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

William S. Paley

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Pat Conroy

Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation.

Shereen El Feki

We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.

Timothy Noah

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.

Brock Yates

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Mignon McLaughlin

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

P. J. O'Rourke

I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'

Michael Reagan

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

H. G. Wells

There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?

Larry Kramer

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Ralph Peters

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Stewart Alsop

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

Tea Obreht

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Marilyn vos Savant

After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.

P. J. O'Rourke

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

Bob Schieffer

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.

Chris Wallace

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

David K. Shipler

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

Ernie Pyle