Malkina Quotes & Sayings

Asset freezes and travel bans are cost-effective tools for punishing humanrights abusers. Why not use them more often? — Anonymous

All the best pubs are built on a hill, so you can slope in and roll out. — Benny Bellamacina

Why is everything I own rubbish?' said Ron furiously, striding across the room to unstick Pigwidgeon's beak. — J.K. Rowling

And we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony. — George Eliot

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I know when a couple are really in love with each other. And by that I do not mean just sexually attracted. There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love, but cannot succeed by itself. — Agatha Christie

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that. — Nick Saban

I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be in the slightest way affected by any competitive loyalty whether that loyalty arises out of our religion, out of our culture or out of our language.
I want all people to be Indians first, Indian last and nothing else but Indians. — B.R. Ambedkar

I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own. — Michel De Montaigne

Mind is tricky. If I say this is very difficult, the mind says, "This is so difficult it is beyond you." If I say this is very simple, the mind says, "This is so simple that only fools can believe in it." And mind goes on rationalizing things, always escaping from doing. — Osho

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms. — Charles Stross

If you are wondering if the Rule works if you count forward 1- 2- 3- 4- 5, instead of backwards 5- 4- 3- 2- 1, the answer is no - it doesn't. Just — Mel Robbins

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer

When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards. — Sue Townsend