Kalb Quotes

#1. A memory elbowed its way past Bishop's fear and stood defiant in the forefront of his mind. Bishop Washington never forgot a face.

Ninie Hammon

#2. His brain was his office.

Theodore Dreiser

#3. We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is Russia began to emerge. And we began to think of it as a democracy. We're going to bring it into the West. All is going to be wonderful. That was never in the cards.

Marvin Kalb

#4. You must learn to give, from sufficiency, not only take, from neediness.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#5. But there are realities governing what they can do. And Ukraine cannot live with the false image that somehow or another the West will come and rescue her. It's not going to happen.

Marvin Kalb

#6. At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been better explained. A valuable, important book for those of us who watch, read, or listen to the news.

Marvin Kalb

#7. I love a novel that's funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucracy affects us all. Read. Enjoy. And if a comparison to Catch 22 pops into your mind, that's not surprising.

Marvin Kalb

#8. When President Obama in 2011 used military power against the Qaddafi regime in Libya, he did not even notify Congress. A few in Congress mumbled, but did nothing.

Marvin Kalb

#9. Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.

George Soros

#10. To the Aiel, it was not a war; it was an execution.

Robert Jordan

#11. All of the grace with which he moved and lived, all of his elegance and composure would fall away like the thinnest, gossamer-like film, to reveal the manic beast within.

Lynn Kelling

#12. U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to declare war.

Marvin Kalb

#13. For their sadness was a symptom of their love for one another -

Aldous Huxley

#14. A student must be humbled to trained by teacher.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

Don Tapscott

#16. Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

Marvin Kalb

#17. Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.

Rose George

#18. Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.

Marvin Kalb

#19. Well, we have got to understand, for example, Russia is an orthodox Christian nation. So is Ukraine. That happened in 988 in Crimea, a place called Kievan Rus, which was the Russia around Kiev at that time. It's 1,000 years ago, but, to a Russian, it's yesterday.

Marvin Kalb

#20. There is a man waiting for a woman like you, don't settle for someone who only opens half of your heart.

Nikki Rowe