
Poem "Night" (Ночь), from When the Weather Clears (Kogda razgulyaetsya, 1957) — as quoted in One Less Hope: Essays on Twentieth-century Russian Poets (2006) by Constantin V. Ponomareff, p. 130
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 31
Poem "Night" (Ночь), from When the Weather Clears (Kogda razgulyaetsya, 1957) — as quoted in One Less Hope: Essays on Twentieth-century Russian Poets (2006) by Constantin V. Ponomareff, p. 130
“There is a time for many words and there is a time also for sleep.”
XI. 379 (tr. A. T. Murray).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: The Odyssey
Bishop George Horne, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 583.
Decca Aitkenhead (1 April 2012). " Dictatorship is coming back to the Maldives and democracy is slipping away http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/01/dictatorship-maldives-democracy?newsfeed=true". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 April 2012: Nasheed about the official charges against him in the Maldives.
“War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.”
"The Old Way of Thinking" http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/Old_Way_Thinking.html, in The Progressive (November 2001)
Context: We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
1992 Democratic National Convention. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/16/news/under-big-top-excerpts-remarks-delivered-tsongas-brown-convention.html
“There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.”
Part 4, Chapter 11 (p. 204)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
“Time and death sleep side by side.”
Variant: "Time and death sleep side by side," said the Dog. "Both are in Astrael's Domain."
Source: Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003), p. 64.