Misha Glenny Quotes

#1. A little of this caviar finds its way to the fish restaurants around Istanbul's Taksim Square, but the bulk is sent on to the United Arab Emirates to be enjoyed by wealthy Westerners and Arabs in the preposterous hotels that have set new standards in unnecessary opulence.

Misha Glenny

#2. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Stephen King

#3. When it really comes down to it, the sense of philanthropy is born out of boredom, too much time and resources on your hands. Despite all your posturing and eloquent speeches, you would never let your manicured hands become soiled by those you claim to aid.

Tyler Chase

#4. The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Baruch Spinoza

#5. Commitment is the demonstrated will to deliver for the people around you.

Jv Venable

#6. You don't have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.

Misha Glenny

#7. I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.

Richard Paul Evans

#8. It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

Cherie Priest

#9. Though Kurt would later claim that his graffiti messages were political, in fact, most of what he wrote was nonsensical. He enraged a neighbor with a boat by painting "Boat Ack" in red letters on the ship's hull; on the other side he lettered, "Boat people go home.

Charles R. Cross

#10. In 1979, Dubai had learned a valuable lesson from the Iranian Revolution and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: trouble has its bright side.

Misha Glenny

#11. There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't.

Misha Glenny

#12. The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is legitimate personal and intellectual communication, and what is not.

Misha Glenny

#13. The very nature of paradise is that it will be lost.

Melissa Coleman

#14. I've been learning a lot about how to make a martini and all the variations that you can have with a few ingredients with Belvedere.

Stephanie Sigman

#15. My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British.

Misha Glenny

#16. The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

Misha Glenny

#17. You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.

The Edge