Alan Furst Quotes

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.

Alan Furst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 20, 1941

Topics

WarResearchDetailsBackKnow

I'm a genetic optimist.

Jeff Bezos

OptimistGenetic

When I defend our right to hunt and fish on public lands, rivers and streams. Or work for better schools. And more good paying jobs that can support a family. Those aren't political issues to me. They're personal.

Steve Bullock

WorkFamilyGoodSupportMeBetter

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

Michel Temer

WorkGoodPowerGovernmentYouNew

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

Michael Mullen

ResponsibilityThinkInformationTake

In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.

Janos Kadar

HistoryPeopleNamePartyCountry

Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.

David Weinberger

KnowledgeProductAlwaysWithinSeem

To create and do something no one else has done before - that feeling beats anything else I've felt.

Dawn Richard

FeelingCreateDoneAnythingBefore

I remember as a kid that I was always physically fit.

Chris Cornell

RememberKidAlwaysFitI Remember

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

Chick Corea

TeacherMyselfMeDoingWantCall

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we are looking to make India self-reliant in terms of power requirement, along with providing carbon-free sources of power, thus improving India's position globally.

Piyush Goyal

PowerLookingIndiaImprovingPrime

You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.

Prince Philip

TryingYouWantSomethingUseful

The only person holding you back is you.

Normani Kordei

YouBackPersonOnlyHolding

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