“The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.” — Scott Anderson Education Copy Share Image
“Initial euphoria would give way to shock, shock to horror, and then, as the killing dragged on with no end in sight,… — Scott Anderson Despair Copy Share Image
I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as… — Scott Anderson Been Copy Share Image
“British generals often gave away in stupidity what they had gained in ignorance.” — Scott Anderson Ignorance Copy Share Image
“Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.” — Scott Anderson Arab Copy Share Image
Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were… — Scott Anderson Affront Copy Share Image
“And for all concerned there was a deepening anger that under the cloak of defending the sacred tenet of “free trade,” the… — Scott Anderson Free trade Copy Share Image
What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if… — Scott Anderson Customer Copy Share Image
If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet… — Scott Anderson Causes Copy Share Image
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And,… — Scott Anderson Anybody Copy Share Image
“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire… — Scott Anderson British empire Copy Share Image
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region… — Scott Anderson Allied Copy Share Image
“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it… — Scott Anderson Israel Copy Share Image
“mold—William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt’s notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of “over-civilization,” code for effeminacy.… — Scott Anderson Programming Copy Share Image
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me… — Scott Anderson Also Copy Share Image
“He wasn’t sure what to do. If he left the rock, it would only take a few minutes of desert air to… — Scott Anderson Pool Remain Copy Share Image
“Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for… — Scott Anderson Medals Copy Share Image
“Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to… — Scott Anderson Crusades Copy Share Image
“Certainly, blame for all this [turmoil in the Middle East] doesn't rest solely with the terrible decisions that were made at the… — Scott Anderson Middle east Copy Share Image
So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to… — Scott Anderson Anew Copy Share Image
“Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it… — Scott Anderson Crisis Copy Share Image
“nothing capable of sustaining an invasion force of any size. But in all this, Aqaba, lying at the very southern end of… — Scott Anderson Aqaba Copy Share Image
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history. — Scott Anderson American Copy Share Image
“Victory carries a moral burden the vanquished never know, and as an architect of momentous events, Lawrence would be uniquely haunted by… — Scott Anderson Lawrence Copy Share Image
“On top of this was the official indigenous Egyptian government that, though it was quite toothless, various British officials periodically felt the… — Scott Anderson Politics Copy Share Image
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like… — Scott Anderson America Copy Share Image
My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia… — Scott Anderson Across Copy Share Image
Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately… — Scott Anderson Available Copy Share Image
“LATE ONE NIGHT in early October 1913, William Yale lay in his tent in the mountains of Anatolia, struck by a sense… — Scott Anderson Life Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little… — Scott Anderson Again Copy Share Image
“[A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades--no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was… — Scott Anderson Common denominator Copy Share Image
Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to… — Scott Anderson Ancient Copy Share Image
The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early… — Scott Anderson After Copy Share Image
In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church.… — Scott Anderson Bring Copy Share Image
“correspondent in the Middle East, attaché William Yale. With that dispatch he was establishing a tradition of fundamentally misreading the situation in… — Scott Anderson Correspondent Copy Share Image
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,… — Scott Anderson Butterfly Copy Share Image
![“Certainly, blame for all this [turmoil in the Middle East] doesn't rest solely with the terrible decisions that were made at the end of World War I, but it was then that one particularly toxic seed was planted. Ever since, Arab society has tended to define itself less by what it aspires to become…” quote by Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/78c/scott-anderson-16892_arab-society_certainly-blame-for-all-this-turmoil-in_1597624.jpg)
![“[A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades--no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was that Jews somewhere were going to suffer.” quote by Scott Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/666/scott-anderson-16892_common-denominator_a-common-denominator-in-european-wars-go_2986747.jpg)
