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More Quotes by  Lawrence Wright

I spent two years in Cairo, and I felt a certain urgency about trying to understand the region and the conflict here, in the modest way that a journalist might be able to try and shed some understanding and enlightenment on a region that is profoundly conflicted, and a conflict that has real consequences for Americans.

Lawrence Wright

What I've learned is that everybody really wants to sell their story. No matter who they are, everybody feels that what they're doing is the right thing, and if they could only explain themselves to a reasonable person that understands them, then maybe they'll listen.

Lawrence Wright

When the price of oil goes up, the entire Texas economy takes a deep breath. Millionaires blossom like rain lilies. News races through the countryside that the money train is pulling into the station. Hop on board!

Lawrence Wright

In places where money comes out of the ground, luck and a willingness to take risks are the main denominators that determine one's future, not talent or education or hard work. Money that is so easily acquired somehow comes to seem well deserved, because those who have it must be either uniquely perspicacious or divinely favored.

Lawrence Wright

The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history. The Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, rose out of the the chaos, throwing the region into turmoil that hasn't been equaled since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Lawrence Wright

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Horace Bushnell

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

E. Joseph Cossman

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends and family, in one's backyard.

Abraham Maslow

The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it

William James

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people wont so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t

Anonymous

To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead

Tony Hsieh

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching

Mooie

The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all.

Emil Motycka

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.

Mooie