Leningrad Siege Quotes

#1. I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Joel Osteen

#2. I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way.

Annette Bening

#3. If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?

George Carlin

#4. Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers.

Woody Allen

#5. It's just that I'm happy now, and I guess that's how we judge a place, isn't it? Not for what it is, but for what we are when we live there.

Janice Graham

#6. Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

Laurence Sterne

#7. We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

John Eaton

#8. I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

Amitabh Bachchan

#9. Billions of women must be out there on this seven-billion-person planet being told that they are not reliable witnesses to their own lives, that the truth is not their property, now or ever.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. You are the cause of your suffering. That means that you alone have the power to change it.

Shai Tubali

#11. To achieve greatness, let us be helpful and grateful to others.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Is it love? I don't know," he said truthfully. "Sometimes I think I'm just addicted to him. Or that he's cast some kind of horrible curse on me where I'm to follow him for the rest of my life, doomed to fall for his lies over and over again.

Bey Deckard

#13. Torture is a good way to get people to talk but a poor method of finding out the truth; people confess whether there is any reality to the confession or not.

-Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

M T Anderson