Katorga Quotes & Sayings

I see a lot of homes that are supercool, and everything is very tasteful, but it's not warm. I'm really scared of rooms that look too serious. — Amanda Peet

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

{Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December, 1813} — Thomas Jefferson

We think relevance and relate-ability are the secrets to spiritual success. And yet, in truth, a dying world needs you to be with God more than it needs you to be with it. — Kevin DeYoung

All men are potential rapists. — Nandita Das

I was terrible at school. — Kristin Scott Thomas

It's enough, therefore, to glance in the dictionary and find that katorga (forced labor) is a Turkish word, too. And it's enough to discover on a Turkish map, somewhere in Anatolia, or Ionia, a town called Nigde (russian for nowhere). — Joseph Brodsky

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. — R. Scott Bakker

Training should not be confined to trainees. It should be a continuous process, and should include the entire professional staff of the agency. The more our people learn, the more useful they can be to our clients. — David Ogilvy

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work. — Sissy Spacek

Peace is nothing but the confusion between two wars — Peyton J Glenn