"How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?"

-- Thanhha Lai

#Country Quotes #Honor Quotes #Rats Quotes

“Joy is the most Magnetic Force in the Universe!”
“The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am.”

Source : "Rei Kawakubo: Exclusive Q&A". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. November 19, 2012.
“Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.”

Source : "IBM Names Rometty to Succeed Palmisano as First Female CEO" by Carol Hymowitz, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.
“A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.”
“The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.”
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
“Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.”
“How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.”

Source : Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 2008.

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