Yodok Concentration Quotes & Sayings

Ask God for a special alertness to sense moments in this day when you can clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Thank the Lord for each person who has demonstrated one of those character traits of Jesus in your life. — Max Lucado

People get it wrong when they talk about innocence: they think it's something to do with ignorance about the facts of sex and all the nasty things that happen in the world. But facts don't change people: it's understanding how the facts feel that does. — Alexia Casale

He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read. He threw the book onto his bed and went to his suitcase. After rummaging about for awhile, he came up with a long, narrow box of chocolate-covered mints. He loved to eat candy while he read, and lots of his favorite books at home had brown smudges on the corners of the pages. — John Bellairs

No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art. — T. S. Eliot

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there? — Nellie McKay

Jax cleared his throat. "You two have loved each other the longest," he said softly. "Doesn't seem
right that you'll be the last to get married. — Penelope Douglas

We are their gods, their angels, their devils, and their dreams. We could rule them. — Pippa DaCosta

Jackie patted her on the shoulder, "you know what you need?"
Ash peeked out from between her fingers."Eight hours of rest before tomorrows exam? Bug spray that repels assholes? — Karsten Knight

You don't compete with dollars, but you compete with ideas. Your only real borders are what you can imagine. — Marc Ecko

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. — Michael J. Gelb

Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important. — Billy Graham

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood. — Sean Parker

The only lesson I got pounded into me was about man's limitless capacity for vice - that and the fact that social distinctions vanish in a concentration camp. I once believed that man was different from other animals, but Yodok showed me that reality doesn't support this opinion. — Kang Chol-Hwan