Framtid I Nord Quotes & Sayings

The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one resents their distracting one, flashing past, the wrong way- something like that: from timidity, partly, one keeps one's eyes on one's own road. — Virginia Woolf

Historically, and notably in the 1905 Russo-Japanese war, the Japanese army's conduct towards defeated enemies had been characterised by mercy. The ruling Tokyo "control group" changed all that, instilling a culture of ruthlessness indistinguishable from barbarism into its armed forces; in 1934 the Ministry of War published a pamphlet which ennobled conflict as "the father of creation and mother of culture. Rivalry for supremacy does for the state what struggle against adversity does for the individual." The Allies now began to discover the significance of this merciless vision for those who fell into enemy hands. Before — Max Hastings

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood. — Yann Martel

For me, there's a lot of expectations and you want to be able to live up to them. — Allyson Felix

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now. — James Clavell