Soltysik Sla Quotes

#1. I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving.

Mark Leibovich

#2. They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves (p. 223).
Melmouth, of the George Flock in Three Bags Full

Leonie Swann

#3. Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Pearl S. Buck

#4. There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

B.B. King

#5. Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.

Jon Krakauer

#6. To say that math is important because it is useful is like saying that children are important because we can train them to do spiritually meaningless labor in order to increase corporate profits. Or is that in fact what we are saying?

Paul Lockhart

#7. There are awkward moments from which one can retreat, and awkward moments from which there is no escape.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. But I do think that Brexit, an exit of Britain from the European Union, would trigger real pressure on the United Kingdom.

Lionel Barber

#9. When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

Iqbal Quadir