Beresina Quotes

#1. One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

George Orwell

#2. In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

Honore De Balzac

#3. The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

John Knox

#4. Each line she etched into the metal was another life cut off, another heart stopped at the slice of this very blade.
A hundred lives to cover up the pain of the very first. A hundred more to shovel away the hurt into a place that was dark and deep.

Sasha Alsberg

#5. she entered the room, clean and dressed, he turned to greet her. A smile lit his face as he looked her over from top to bottom. She gave a little spin and asked, "How do I look?" She knew what he thought, but wanted to hear the answer anyway.

Jeannette Winters

#6. Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

Rich Lowry

#7. We are human beings, not Asiatics and Americans, Russians and Germans, communists and capitalists. We all have the same human problems.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#8. The truth is paradoxical; but man's passion for rational coherence is even stronger than his love of truth.

Aldous Huxley