Belomor Canal Quotes & Sayings

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father. — Juvenal

At least I'm the one leaving. It's so much easier to leave than to be left. — Stefan Emunds

Why would the Prime Minister make such an order, Mr. Chaudhry?" the General leaned forward to put out the barely smoked cigarette. "Would you advise him to do such a foolish thing? Are you tired of being in government already?" A barely noticeable sneer crept across his battle-worn face. — Khalid Muhammad

The most precise of her sayings seemed always to me to have enigmatical prolongations vanishing somewhere beyond my reach. I am reduced to suppose that she appreciated my attention and my silence. The attention she could see was quite sincere, so that the silence could not be suspected of coldness. It seemed to satisfy her. And it is to be noted that if she confided in me it was clearly not with the expectation of receiving advice, for which, indeed, she never asked. — Joseph Conrad

That doesn't matter. Gorky's a vain man. We must bind him with cables to the Party," replied Stalin.3 It worked: during the kulak liquidation, Gorky unleashed his hatred of the backward peasants in Pravda: "If the enemy does not surrender, he must be exterminated." He toured concentration camps and admired their re-educational value. He supported slave labour projects such as the Belomor Canal which he visited with Yagoda, whom he congratulated: "You rough fellows do not realize what great work you're doing!"4 Yagoda, — Simon Sebag Montefiore

If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak. — Amy Carmichael

Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more. — Sharon Stone

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it. — Albert Einstein

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits. — Ryan Eggold

When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raised, holds his ear To some bright star in the supremest Round; Through which, besides the light that's seen There may be heard, from Heaven within, The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound. — Owen Feltham

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. — Lee Simonson

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. — Leo Tolstoy