Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment. Brendan I. Koerner Read Quote
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: ‘What about people like me?’ Wendy Cope Read Quote
In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there’s a fear that you’ve forgotten how to do it. Matthew Ramsey Read Quote
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. Pearl Bailey Read Quote
Everyone makes mistakes; it’s about the way you respond to it that’s really important. Steve Smith Read Quote
It’s true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality at country level, especially inside countries. And there are people that were left behind – people, sectors, regions – that has created a sense of frustration in the rust belts of the world. Antonio Guterres Read Quote
Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster. Vladimir Putin Read Quote
