Seoul South Korea Quotes & Sayings

They kissed deeply, but she pushed him away when he started to get grabby. "No, seriously, let me get a shower. My vagina smells like a set of nuts."
"Awesome." Cole laughed. — Debra Anastasia

If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football. — Franz Beckenbauer

The sound of running footsteps made them all start. Then the refectory door opened and the round, freckled face of Sister Belinda appeared. She was breathing heavily, and her veil was crooked, showing short tufts of red hair sprouting around her glowing face like unruly weeds in a parched garden.
"Excuse me, Mother, Sisters," she said. "But there is a police car waiting at the gate and what looks like the Black Maria behind it. Also, another car approaching from the farm and a uniformed constable coming in via the beach path. It would appear that the filth have us surrounded. — Sharon Bolton

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. — Tom DeLay

Whatever we'd had together, however brief and wrong, it had made me believe that it was possible to connect with another human being. — Vikki Wakefield

I tried not to let my relief show. I'd been a passenger in Jae's car a total of three times, and after each trip, I forced myself not to kiss the ground in thanks once I got free of the Explorer. He'd learned to drive in Seoul. Apparently, no one believed in turn signals or lanes in South Korea, because Jae drove like a drunk butterfly heading to its next fermented flower. — Rhys Ford

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman told one of the authors in Seoul, South Korea, a de cade ago that he has always followed one piece of advice that his MIT professors had given him: "Never touch the money system." Krugman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2008. — Anonymous

the product of fear is a certain vital ignorance - an ignorance of all that does not help allay the fear, that does not contribute to attack or defense against an enemy. — Anonymous

Uber, which raised $1.2 billion this month at a valuation of $40 billion, said in August it had sought a legal opinion and that its Seoul service obeys the law. Opposition to its operations is down to outdated regulations that precede smartphone and wireless technology, Allen Penn, the company's head of Asia, told reporters at the time. Paid transportation with unregistered vehicles is "clearly illegal activity," South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said later that month. The maximum penalty for Uber's alleged legal violation is a two-year prison sentence or a fine of nearly $20,000, Yonhap News reported Wednesday. — Anonymous

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information — Henry Jenkins

Everyone acknowledges that there are vast amounts we do not know, and that enormous opportunities for progress in understanding lie before us. But scientific naturalists claim to know what the form of that progress will be, and to know that mentalistic, teleological, or evaluative intelligibility in particular have been left behind for good as fundamental forms of understanding. — Thomas Nagel

I want to make Seoul the front line of the new South Korea. Seoul is sleeping, and I want to wake it up. — Chung Mong-joon

Curiosity is the seedling for innovation, and if you can recognize it and react positively to it among your people, you can multiply innovative ideas — David Goldsmith

It's gotten far easier to allow ourselves to hate than it is to choose to love. — Sam Killermann

The death of Baldr is one of the most important moments in the mythology. — John Lindow

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient. — Andy Summers

If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai. — Thaksin Shinawatra

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves. — Louis L'Amour

Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are. — Gwendolyn Brooks

In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree that after the war began, the North Korean Army captured Seoul in three days and pushed as far south as Pusan before American troops arrived to drive back the North Koreans nearly as far north as the border to China. — Sheryl WuDunn