Bret Stephens Quotes
Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
-
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
-
I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
-
I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
-
I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.
-
I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I'm doing faster times I've ever done in training.
-
A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
-
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
-
Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
-
I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.
-
It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
-
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
-
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
-
Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.
-
Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.
-
I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.
-
I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.
-
I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.
-
I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.
-
What I find really exciting is stories from a different viewpoint.
-
The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.
-
I'm here to be the guy that rubs people the wrong way sometimes.
-
Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the most celebrated, was his refusal to accept an early release from his captors.
