Gewesen War Quotes

#1. Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#2. I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

Sidney Poitier

#3. The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. What a splendid thing is literature, what a splendid thing! It strengthens and instructs the heart of man. Literature is a sort of picture. It connotes at once passion, expression, fine criticism, good learning, and a document.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. A man on a mission would bring his heaviest artillery, and it looked like this guy hadn't even packed a pocket knife.

Angela Richardson

#6. The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.

Vladimir Sorokin

#7. Instead of a central finance function tracking if funds are utilized as per plan, we have outcome owners accountable for realizing value out of pre-approved funds tied to outcomes rather than plans.

Sriram Narayan

#8. Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Seneca.

#9. In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

Eric S. Raymond