Abakumov Nkvd Quotes & Sayings

Time is a tool - use it well. — Matshona Dhliwayo

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it; — Mark Twain

The proud tower built up through the great age of European civilization was an edifice of grandeur and passion, of riches and beauty and dark cellars. Its inhabitants lived, as compared to a later time, with more self-reliance, more confidence, more hope; greater magnificence, extravagance and elegance; more careless ease, more gaiety, more pleasure in each other's company and conversation, more injustice and hypocrisy, more misery and want, more sentiment including false sentiment, less sufferance of mediocrity, more dignity in work, more delight in nature, more zest. The Old World had much that has since been lost, whatever may have been gained. Looking back on it from 1915, Emile Verhaeren, the Belgian Socialist poet, dedicated his pages, With emotion, to the man I used to be. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Okay. I'm not a white male. At least, not predominantly so. And as I mentioned before, I'm in an environment right now where race is really important. See, Chinese men are not that physically intimidating. We're not that tall. We're not that built. We have exactly one thing going for us in a fight - that our opponent recognizes that there's a possibility, no matter how remote, that we might know kung-fu. — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless. — Dean Frazer

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself. — Rabindranath Tagore

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party. — Johann Lamont