Quotes About The Siege Of Leningrad

#1. 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

#2. Pursuit of excellence is desire for divine fulfilment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

Mitch Albom

#4. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

Jane Austen

#5. Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Daisaku Ikeda

#6. I've been keeping journals since I was 13.

Keke Palmer

#7. If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean that the thing we're talking about when we use the word "identity" has reached an end.

Don DeLillo

#8. For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.

Chang-rae Lee