Ghost Town - Chronicles Elena's motor cycling through the Chernobyl "dead zone". Provides her pictures, maps and stories.
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Chornobyl "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Chornobyl
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Chornobyl Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Chornobyl
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Chornobyl "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Chornobyl
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Chornobyl The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Chornobyl
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Chornobyl For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Chornobyl
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chornobyl The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Chornobyl
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Chornobyl Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Chornobyl
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Chornobyl Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Chornobyl
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Chornobyl Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Chornobyl
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Chornobyl Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Chornobyl
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chornobyl You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Chornobyl
