Tony Horwitz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
-- Tony Horwitz

#People #Intimacy #Latter
The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it.
-- Tony Horwitz

#Grandma #Italian #Past
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

#War #Believe #Marine
Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem "Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh" (Tomorrow, God Willing, Never Mind) isn't just an excuse for laziness. In a society requiring millennial patience, it is also a social code dictating that no one make too much of a fuss about things. But put an Egyptian in the driver's seat and he shows all the calm and consideration of a hooded swordsman delivering Islamic justice.
-- Tony Horwitz

#Islamic #Justice #Car
Even aimless journeys have a purpose.
-- Tony Horwitz

#Journey #Purpose
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

#Thinking #Cities #Rebel
I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.
-- Tony Horwitz

#Maps #Matter #Agnostic

The words â€˜I Love Youâ€™ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious.
My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. Iâ€™ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift.
What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.
I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Tony Horwitz famous quotes

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