“Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as “our brothers' keepers,” possessed of one of the oldest and possibly one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting of instincts. It will not let us go.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“Legislative blocks are not always simply obstacles to be overcome.”
― War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
― War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority
“Things change. Time changes them. Great nations, and institutions, rethink. But only if they’re great.”
― The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings
― The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings
“My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things—trout as well as eternal salvation—come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“Development” and “evolution”—words of such importance to us—would have meant little in the timeless culture of Sumer, where everything that was—their city, their fields, their herds, their plows—had always been.”
― The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
― The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
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