Vladichem Quotes

#1. Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.

Janet Fitch

#2. It's hard to disappoint me. Anything is fine.

Marty Rubin

#3. A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.

George Santayana

#4. Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

Henry Miller

#5. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.

Anonymous

#6. But people have their own troubles and tend to forget. One is not all that interesting. Even Hitler is being forgotten at last.

Iris Murdoch

#7. I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.

Pico Iyer

#8. I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job ... He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.

Hank Aaron

#9. Facts are no more slid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are. Bot both are sensitive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an "I am" and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.

Alfred W. Crosby

#11. Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

Bernard Cornwell

#12. Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

John Gerzema