Nicholas Kristof quote: "One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed."

Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and const...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opp...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

I've always been interested in public health approaches because it seems to me we have this year...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, an...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

When I was growing up, yearning with my pals to be a track star, one of our heroes was Bruce Jenner....
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by them...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and ec...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. E...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities ma...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling ma...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the co...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivia...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things t...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Humans pull together in an odd way when they're in the wilderness. It's astonishing how few ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Saudi Arabia isn't the enemy, but it is a problem. It could make so much positive difference in ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Maybe our best family trip started at Victoria Falls, which drenches you with spray and is so vast t...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

There are very few things I've done just twice in my life, 40 years apart, and one is to backpac...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called 'Reporter' about my 2007 win-a-trip j...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, o...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

I can't help thinking that if the American West were discovered today, the most glorious bits wo...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug i...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of publi...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management ex...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statis...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremis...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they ac...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Sure, food stamps are occasionally misused, but anyone familiar with business knows that the abuse o...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who st...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figu...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember th...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

My father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, was preparing a fraudulent marriage to an American citizen...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Climate change is hugely exacerbated by changing patterns of how we choose to live, often in danger ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-d...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Am...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

I was the first blogger on the Times's website. That happened during the Iraq war, when I wanted...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

If only meat weren't so delicious! Sure, meat may pave the way to a heart attack. Yes, factory f...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

The great divide is not between faiths, but one between intolerant zealots of any tradition and the ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

In 2013, 71 percent of black children in America were born to an unwed mother, as were 53 percent of...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingl...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

I didn't just want to sit and suck my thumb and write.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

In effect, Saudi Arabia legitimizes fundamentalism, religious discrimination, intolerance and the op...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds ar...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, a...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by bannin...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she'll talk your ear ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

In America, we have subsidized private jets, big banks and hedge fund managers. Wouldn't it make...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit in...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn'...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Afri...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur f...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, s...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much abo...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive chan...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and mal...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the noti...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of mur...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and l...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

We just have to keep building on the fourth quarter. There was a sense of urgency that I don't know ...
KAEL KRISTOF

Our scouting report definitely was focused on other guys. I didn't get how he kept getting open.
KAEL KRISTOF

They're going to be good. They work hard and they don't quit. They'll be good, especially if Sam bec...
KAEL KRISTOF

I feel bitter after being just one point away from the final, but it was a good week and a great way...
KRISTOF VLIEGEN

I'm fighting like an animal, and I get so close.
KRISTOF VLIEGEN

I wasn't playing that well but I was fighting hard and hustling shots.
KRISTOF VLIEGEN

I'm fighting like an animal, and I get so close. I was getting so close and losing. That's disappoin...
KRISTOF VLIEGEN

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion r...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We ...
HAROLD NICHOLAS

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went th...
HAROLD NICHOLAS

When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you&...
NICHOLAS HOULT

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
NICHOLAS LEA

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is...
NICHOLAS MOSLEY

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for ...
NICHOLAS MEYER

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into i...
NICHOLAS MOSLEY

The huge advantage of boarding school is that it throws you into the social fire. Every social inter...
NICHOLAS STOLLER

They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the can...
NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER

I would celebrate the Holy Communion service in my pajamas if I thought it would help someone to fin...
NICHOLAS STACEY

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, i...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

It takes courage to be the author of your life. When you are struggling through one of the difficult...
NICHOLAS LORE

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teac...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts s...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better,...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordina...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that cou...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Every great love starts with a great story...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Do you want a cookie?
- What?
- A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one?
- No.
-...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And th...
NICHOLAS KLEIN

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right ti...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

avoid you. I want to avoid you.” He stared at her, plainly confused.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

her jeans and sleeveless blouse.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Sentada na cozinha, Denise pensava que a vida era como o estrume.
Quando usado no jardim, servi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Había aparecido en su vida cuando ella menos lo esperaba, de la forma más increíble posible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

blazing across the sky? Or did he dream using the few
NICHOLAS SPARKS

additional twenty feet. Not much if the ladder was at an angle—but because it would have to be pos...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Didn’t we just talk about this the other night?” Denise sighed with exasperation. “Yeah, we ta...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

But then again, he hadn’t really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there wa...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Vais encontrar muita gente pela vida fora que diz as palavras certas na altura certa. Mas, ao fim e ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You don’t understand –” “Like hell I don’t!” Mitch said, slamming his beer glass onto th...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spel...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they�...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I don’t know you? Hell, I know you! You’re a damn coward, is what you are! You’re afraid of li...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

- You've been through a lot in your life.
- Too much, I sometimes think.
- But you keep go...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Of the many things she’d learned from her mother, there was one that always stood out, one that ca...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Not really. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. For me . . . well, it just adds a richness y...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She hadn't chosen this life; it was the only life offered to her.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Did you hear that Mitch? Your mom thinks you're beautiful.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most peopl...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

But I suppose it depends on how you look a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his h...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it
NICHOLAS SPARKS

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any oth...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the pres...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine h...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we wer...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. P...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Aren't you frightened?"
Somehow I expected her to say no, to say something wise like a grownup...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Jamie: Please don't pretend like you know me, ok?
Landon: But I do, I do. We've had all the sam...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on?
Landon: Right now, you're straddling...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything t...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT m...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater?
Jamie: Because, he...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I might kiss you.
I might be bad at it.
That's not possible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never l...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

What's your heart telling you to do?
I don't know.'
Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can b...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Jamie: You know what I figured out today?
Landon: What?
Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

i'm sorry she never got her miracle.
she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

Nicholas Kristof

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