Tskhinvali Quotes

#1. When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their Russian friends, joined the army and started killing the Russian comrades in arms.

Sergei Lavrov

#2. Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.

Wil Haygood

#4. The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

Noam Chomsky

#5. They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

Donald Judd

#6. You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#7. When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war.

Mark Helprin

#8. Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more

George Monbiot

#9. You know what a wifey means? It's like your other half. Like when you get married, like, that's your wife!

Rita Ora

#10. Gay women are lesbians, and gay men are what? They deserve an identifier, like 'kissboys.'

Jason Derulo

#11. ...it made me think of everything I had done. It made me weigh up my life. And it made me want to tie things up, so that next time - and I hope there will not be a next time - the next time I faced death like that, I could think: I have set me life in order.

Alexander McCall Smith

#12. It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed.

Noam Chomsky

#14. I wish my wish would not be granted!

Douglas R. Hofstadter