Yodok Quotes

#1. I once believed man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. In the camp, there was no difference between man and beast, except maybe that a very hungry human was capable of stealing food from its little ones while an animal, perhaps, was not.

Kang Chol-Hwan

#2. The only lesson I got pounded into me was about man's limitless capacity for vice - that and the fact that social distinctions vanish in a concentration camp. I once believed that man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion.

Kang Chol-Hwan

#3. But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.

Erno Rubik

#4. I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

Stanley Kunitz

#5. I think the United States is way behind the times.

Christopher Atkins

#6. If the administration asks for $5 and Congress appropriates $4, that's what they get. If the government creates a subterfuge by going outside the government to raise money through a private entity, that's a violation of the law.

Lamar Alexander

#7. The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#9. The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

Carl Sandburg

#10. My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.

Jay R. Ferguson

#11. My legs have the strength of mashed potatoes. I'm cold and clammy and my stomach churns like I vomited. That's because I did, in the viewing room, and I discovered that yellow bile does not blend well with red velvet industrial carpeting. My crowning achievement in overreaction.

Katie McGarry

#12. I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

Nora Roberts

#13. Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates.

Sarah MacLean

#14. man is not a man, until he stands for somthing good

Malcolm Cook

#15. If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

Leonard Cohen

#16. Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

Ciaran Hinds