Tracy Kidder Quotes

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

Tracy Kidder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 12, 1945

Topics

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Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

John Heisman

FootballSmallBetterBoyThanDied

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Ann Beattie

TogetherHappyLittleShareUsWho

In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.

Jeffrey Sachs

GoodWorldEarlyYearsPayUp

Without the EPA and the national pollution safeguards it enforces, more children would have asthma. Our water would be less safe. More chemicals would poison our bodies. And more people would die prematurely from respiratory diseases and heart attacks.

Amber Valletta

HeartChildrenWaterPeopleDie

No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

Simon Sinek

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I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.

Tony Campolo

BibleSpeakThinkChurchHypocrisy

Radio Astronomy has added greatly to our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the universe. The cosmic microwave background radiation, considered a relic of the explosion at the beginning of the universe some 18 billion years ago, is one of the most powerful aids in determining these features of the universe.

Robert Woodrow Wilson

BeginningUniversePowerfulRadio

Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. There were statues of Lenin and some neon signs of the hammer and sickle. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression.

Martina Navratilova

GirlMyselfCountryNowLiving

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

Jason Mraz

GirlRelationshipHeartRoadLetters

Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.

Denise Mina

AttitudeFuturePeopleEvilSaying

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Donna Tartt

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Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Dean Acheson

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