Butterfly Quote by Scott Anderson

“Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It…

— Scott Anderson

“He wasn’t sure what to do. If he left the rock, it would only take a few minutes of desert air to dry his…

— Scott Anderson

“nothing capable of sustaining an invasion force of any size. But in all this, Aqaba, lying at the very southern end of the”

— Scott Anderson

“Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.”

— Scott Anderson

Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course,…

— Scott Anderson

The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World…

— Scott Anderson

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

— Scott Anderson

“Over the course of his wartime service, Lawrence was awarded a number of medals and ribbons, but with his profound disdain for such things,…

— Scott Anderson

“Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy…

— Scott Anderson

“Initial euphoria would give way to shock, shock to horror, and then, as the killing dragged on with no end in sight, horror to…

— Scott Anderson

If wells are constructed right and operated right, hydraulic fracturing will not cause a problem. … Our natural gas supplies would plummet precipitously without…

— Scott Anderson

“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. The true…

— Scott Anderson