The Siege Helen Dunmore Important Quotes & Sayings

Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy ... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but Germany, my friend, is playing a very different tune. Germany has many more birds in her sights than just France ...
Shabelsky: Nonsense! ... In my view the German are cowards and the French are cowards ... They're just thumbing their noses at each other. Believe me, things will stop there. They won't fight.
Borkin: And as I see it, why fight? What's the point of these
armaments, congresses, expenditures? You know what I'd do? I'd gather together dogs from all over the country, give them a good dose of rabies and let them loose in enemy country. In a month all my enemies would be running rabid. — Anton Chekhov

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned. — James Beard

I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going. — Tomm Moore

If you live, live free
or die like the trees, standing up. — Mahmoud Darwish

Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be. — Benjamin Netanyahu

You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen. — Alek Wek

So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give. — Jose Mourinho

The older we get the less afraid we are. — Sidney Poitier

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital. — Paul Tudor Jones

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on. — Robin McKinley