“it takes no more than ten grown men to prevent a stationary car from getting away—” — Jeffrey Gettleman Getting away Copy Share Image
“often it helps to hang it on the boss. It’s also the tone you strike, the eye contact.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Boss Copy Share Image
“There’s this notion, lived just about every day out here, that nothing’s easy but anything’s possible.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Easy Copy Share Image
“The Oxford dons had accomplished the impossible. They made Africa boring.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Accomplished Impossible Copy Share Image
“We were about to undertake the most physical challenge of our lives on a diet the equivalent of s’mores.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Challenge Copy Share Image
“There’s exactly one difference between an adventure and a tragedy: death.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Adventure Copy Share Image
“The more war you get, the more war you want. It’s an addiction.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Addiction Copy Share Image
“First comes Coke, then asphalt, then power lines, then maybe education, justice, and human rights.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Coke Copy Share Image
“The Soviet Union had just said dasvidaniya to itself, the Cold War had suddenly ended, the United States was embarking on the… — Jeffrey Gettleman Cold war Copy Share Image
“There’s always that thrill of learning something new, feeling your brain grow inside your head, no matter what that something is.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Adventure Copy Share Image
“The news of suffering takes a new shape when you’re a parent. Fatherhood peels back a layer of skin, exposing a network… — Jeffrey Gettleman Fatherhood Copy Share Image
“as soon as the Berlin Wall came crumbling down, the Mobutus became an embarrassment. There was suddenly no reason to prop them… — Jeffrey Gettleman Berlin wall Copy Share Image
“Once I heard a remark made about a certain New York television reporter to the effect that he was the type who… — Jeffrey Gettleman Mrs Lincoln Copy Share Image
“That’s how the Islamists are,” Louis went on. “They keep changing and changing, but they’ll never give up on their goal to… — Jeffrey Gettleman Concept of time Copy Share Image
“I discovered something I would inflict on myself several more times: the primacy of loneliness. If you’re working hard and lonely, or… — Jeffrey Gettleman Loneliness Copy Share Image
“Famines are not natural disasters. Famines are man-made. Droughts happen from time to time. But in this century, for any drought to… — Jeffrey Gettleman Famine Copy Share Image
“if you’re wondering if we were absolutely insane to march out into the middle of the desert and place our lives in… — Jeffrey Gettleman Trust Copy Share Image
“College was constantly creating these predicaments: in the morning, you’re an interested, earnest student trying to understand John Rawls’s veil of ignorance,… — Jeffrey Gettleman College Copy Share Image
“I can’t remember any time the Americans have delivered a worse mess than this. You know what they’re doing?” He bent forward… — Jeffrey Gettleman Time Copy Share Image
“America’s decision to green-light Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia and overthrow a popular, grassroots, and surprisingly effective Islamist administration led, over the next… — Jeffrey Gettleman Five years Copy Share Image
“If you’re with the one you love, the rest should be logistics.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Logistics Copy Share Image
“you know everything you need to know about a guy by seeing how he treats waiters.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Waiters Copy Share Image
“maybe out here, you didn’t have to move through life hopelessly alone.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Life Copy Share Image
“Often it’s not the bad things that split people apart but the opportunities.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Bad thing Copy Share Image
“He taught me more about aid work than anyone else. He knew that it took strategy, not heart.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Aid Work Copy Share Image
“Everybody should work at a small newspaper. The amount of life you take in is staggering.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Life Copy Share Image
“With crowds, it can always go either way. You have to be respectful. But the energy of a crowd, man, the way… — Jeffrey Gettleman Crowd Copy Share Image
“they were in that bulging-eyed, unreachable state human beings morph into right before they kill.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Human beings Copy Share Image
“Courtesy of our millions, Mobutu became one of Africa’s worst disasters, ruling for decades like a late-stage Roman emperor.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Disasters Copy Share Image
“More than 2,000 years ago Herodotus wrote, “In peaceful times, children inter their parents. In war times, parents inter their children.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Time Copy Share Image
“We were trying to rebuild people in our image, convincing them that our way of doing things was superior to their way,… — Jeffrey Gettleman Doing things Copy Share Image
“More people were slaughtered, hour by hour, in Rwanda than during the height of the Holocaust, and the Hutus didn’t have cattle… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“The superpowers took some of the least developed areas on earth, like the Somali desert or the Congo River basin, and pumped… — Jeffrey Gettleman Nature Copy Share Image
“Worrying about wildlife that we so love to observe can sound painfully quaint - this is exactly what Binyavanga Wainaina parodied in… — Jeffrey Gettleman Animals Copy Share Image
“however crazy this world gets, however accustomed to misery someone may be, we are all the same. No one ever totally gives… — Jeffrey Gettleman Hope Copy Share Image
“The aid industry has saved millions of lives, but it is complicated (and maybe this is a necessary evil) by a set… — Jeffrey Gettleman Cynical Copy Share Image
“Africa had the rotten luck to gain its freedom at the height of the Cold War, which meant dozens of young nations… — Jeffrey Gettleman Cold war Copy Share Image
“What if they didn’t even want my help? From pit latrines to condoms, we were trying to assist countless people in every… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
