Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

#1. The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957! Solzhenitsyn cited Cheka Order No. 10, issued on January 8, 1921: 'To intensify the repression of the bourgeoisie.'

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.

Phil Lesh

#3. Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

Andy Hargreaves

#4. What have you eaten today?"
"Humble pie, my own words, and a little crow. All three taste like shit.

Rachel Vincent

#5. I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#6. Some things defy language itself.

Sylvain Reynard

#7. Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welcomed, for even in sleep I was tormented.

Dave Moore

#8. I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

Malala Yousafzai

#9. Do you know where 'policeman' comes from, sir? ... 'Polis' used to mean 'city', said Carrot. That's what policeman means: 'a man for the city'. Not many people knew that. The word 'polite' comes from 'polis', too. It used to mean the proper behaviour from someone living in a city.

Terry Pratchett

#10. And Bish thought it strange that seventeen-year-old girls who had sex with idiot boys could still cry like babies for their fathers.

Melina Marchetta

#11. It was unrelenting and painful as it clawed and clouded his brain, reducing him to a saliva-ridden animal desperate to eviscerate the Jinn who dared to hurt what was his.
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Samantha Young

#12. When things go our way we reject the lack of certainty.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. When that moment comes- and it always comes- when your life teeters between giving up and getting up, when you can't give up and you can't get up, either, here's what you do ... Crawl.

Rick Yancey

#14. Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.

Erin McCarthy

#15. There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.

Andrew Solomon

#16. Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.

David Deutsch