Ashok Kamte Quotes

#1. An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Paul Samuelson

#2. From 1975 to 1979 - through execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor - the Khmer Rouge systematically killed an estimated two million Cambodians, almost a fourth of the country's population.

Loung Ung

#3. I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate and how they deal with disaster because they're worldly enough to have a bit of irony and wryness about their own circumstances. So, I think the humour comes out of that.

Colin Firth

#4. Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.

Edith Wharton

#5. I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

David Rudisha

#6. Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail,
strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.

John Ruskin

#7. Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is.

Miriam Toews