Quotes About Defectors

#1. The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent to any objective other than that of change and advertising.

Jean Baudrillard

#2. A majority of all defectors who voted Labour in 2010 but for a different party in 2015 said Ed Miliband had helped push them to another party. For those switching to the Tories, the second biggest reason was the fear that a Labour government would spend and borrow too much.

Michael Ashcroft

#3. It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.

Hark-Joon Lee

#4. All defectors have a complex relationship with truth.

David Mitchell

#5. Defectors often cause more difficulty than disinterested disbelievers.

Neal A. Maxwell

#6. I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

Kim Young-sam

#7. Divorce can leave children feeling like defectors.

Diane Greene

#8. I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.

Kim Young-sam

#9. Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

Dante Alighieri

#10. He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation, he asked, "What are you made of?"
After I gathered the broken bits and pieces of my life together, I shouted at the top of my lungs, "HOPE! Unbreakable, undeniable, irrevocable hope!

Jay Grewal

#11. Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

Piet Mondrian

#12. There are probably already too many people on the planet.

Nina Fedoroff

#13. Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Sophocles

#14. People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

Gael Garcia Bernal

#15. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing

Charles Dickens

#16. There are people out there who don't actively hold you back as much as they work quietly on your insecurities so that you hold yourself back.

Michael James Jackson

#17. I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

Aaron McGruder

#18. I've worked with a ginormous number of people over the years. What happens when you've been around for a while, when you run into people whose work you've seen and liked and they have seen and liked your work, there's a sense of you kind of know each other even though you don't.

Richard Masur

#19. If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.

Marc Almond

#20. We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are nothing.

Cyril Connolly

#21. I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

Carine Roitfeld

#22. There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

Ovid