Pashkovets Quotes & Sayings

The Muslim East has been in a defensive posture for centuries. Take Turkey. For a period of close to two hundred years, we've been living through phases of vital self-defense and security. In such a society, a fortress mentality naturally arises. If today we've lost the concept of freedom, the reason is that we're living in a state of siege." Suad — Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC.
Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career. — Colin Powell

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast. — Alice Walker

These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements. — Frank Carlucci

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Either you are racist or you are a human - you cannot be both. — Abhijit Naskar