North Korea Famine Quotes

#1. Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

Preston Manning

#2. My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

Lynda Barry

#3. I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.

Elvis Costello

#4. The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

Thomas Carlyle

#5. The only problem I had was that my whole life was a lesson in the effect of echoes, that I was living in the third person.

Don DeLillo

#6. Love and hatred belong to the same plant: one is rose, the other is thorn.

Vinita Kinra

#7. Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.

Jay Leno

#8. (The North Korean army had to lower its height requirement from five feet three in the early 1990s because of the stunting of the younger generation.)

Barbara Demick

#9. I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.

Kang Chol-Hwan

#10. Tens of thousands of North Korean women have been sold to Chinese men. By some estimates, three quarters of the roughly 100,000 North Korean refugees living in China are women and more than half of them live in arranged unions with Chinese men.

Barbara Demick

#11. The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#12. Don't think this has taught me a lesson !

Tallulah Bankhead

#13. If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not

Sunday Adelaja

#14. This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

Paul Kane

#15. North Korean students and intellectuals didn't dare to stage protests as their counterparts in other Communist countries did. There was no Prague Spring or Tiananmen Square. The level of repression in North Korea was so great that no organized resistance could take root.

Barbara Demick

#16. Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.

Hyeonseo Lee