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That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
JOHN OLDHAM The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
WOODROW WILSON Earth is dearer than gold
ESTONIAN PROVERB A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
MARINA TSVETAEVA A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
EURIPIDES If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
ROBERT MONTGOMERY Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest
ROBERT MONTGOMERY There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
NIKOLAI GOGOL But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me tha...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Best image of myself and dearer half.
JOHN MILTON What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose g...
JOHN BIDDLE One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who sta...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog,...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his d...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of co...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.
DUFF GREEN The future is always more dangerous than the present and the past.
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. Bu...
RAHEEL FAROOQ The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, t...
MARCEL PAGNOL The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, t...
MARCEL PAGNOL Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
ARISTOTLE The past was the past. The future will be the future. The present is the present. Let's keep it that...
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
GEORGE HERBERT If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER But bid life seize the present?
It lives less in the present
Than in the future always, ...
ROBERT FROST Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter; dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty, bey...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pea...
OSCAR WILDE The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us then ten-thousand truths.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or futur...
EUGENE O'NEILL Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past...
SUSAN SONTAG The scanty supply of petroleum products by the BPC to its dealers made the products dearer.
MIZANUR RAHMAN Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the futur...
THOMAS PIKETTY Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Th...
REV. E.J. YOUNG When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Some things are very dear to me --/ Such things as flowers bathed by rain/ Or patterns traced upon t...
GWENDOLYN BENNETT God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT Human beings intuitively divide time into the past, the present, and the future. We perceive the pas...
KILROY J. OLDSTER We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The...
KILROY J. OLDSTER To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.
But the best of all, to live i...
TOBA BETA Every single second of our life,we are creating our past,present and future...
YONG BOON Your future must be better than your past, and your present. If it is not so then you did not sow a ...
WISDOM ATTAH ELORM Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same? But the partridge i...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, ...
AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES Birth is past, Death is future, Life is present. So enjoy and live life with totality.
RAMESH KAVDIA(RAMESH BABA) Nothing is but what is now
RON RASH Life is too short to question, but so is the future and past. Honestly, the present is what matters ...
JORDAN LEE TYO "The past is always subject to the change that the present brings to the future.
JAIME CONTRERAS My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, wit...
MARQUIS DE SADE Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our childr...
GEORGE ELIOT Learn from the Past, Enjoy the Present, Influence the Future!
SOLLY TAMARI What was..was,what is..is and what will be,shall come and be
KIMBERLY SHILENJE The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves on...
AMIN MAALOUF The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never...
PETER BENCHLEY That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself foun...
MADAME DE STAEL Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contain...
T.S. ELIOT My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ Let's learn from the past and use it in the future rather than forget the past and look to the futur...
PETER SAYSOMPHANE Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present...
RICHARD ROHR Blush, happy maiden, when you feel The lips which press love's glowing seal; But as the slow y...
ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN ("FLORENCE PERCY") It's a symbol of our past, present and future.
DENIS SCUTO Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved to...
BRANDON MULL The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.
THOMAS S. MONSON Past reforms the present & present determines the future...
IFTEKHAR HOSSAIN Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the fut...
THICH NHAT HANH Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time...
, ALWAYS NOW, 1997 Can one ever let go of the past when the future becomes the present and the present becomes your pas...
TERESA MORGAN Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
ANTOINE RIVAROL There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so t...
LAINI TAYLOR Live in the NOW. Live life to its fullest. Don’t spend more than 10% of your time learning from th...
VIKRMN The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
JOHN SENTAMU The future is no more uncertain than the present.
WALT WHITMAN He was friendly as a warm bowl of soup. An affable guy, he always had a dimpled smile on his face an...
JOSEPH G. PETERSON Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from ...
WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The future is no more uncertain than the present
WALT WHITMAN Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
T.S. ELIOT The past was lesson; the present is endeavor; the future is success.
PETER SAYSOMPHANE The future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into ever lasting regret if...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON Past is story, present is moment to act & future is ray of hope.Therefore don’t lament for past to...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future...
W.H. AUDEN The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all th...
ALFRED WHITEHEAD The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all tha...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
GARY RYAN BLAIR Past, Present, Future...Yours, Mine, Ours!
KEVIN FOBBS No man in the past, present or future can manage time!! Every man in the past, present and future co...
ANUROOP TYAGI How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the pr...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself o...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself o...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how ...
JOHN GREEN ...you may have created my past and screwed up my present but you have no control over my future.
DAVID KLASS We can examine life by looking at the past, but can only reach the future by living in the present.
ANDONI GARCIA We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor C...
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ALEKSANDR VOINOV You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fe...
ALEKSANDR LEBED There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.
ALEKSANDR LEBED In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty year...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I...
ALEKSANDR LEBED And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's pow...
ALEKSANDR LEBED It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
ALEKSANDR KUPRIN He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed undernea...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your ne...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no r?gime has eve...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addit...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that ...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jail...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opp...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is m...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Our envy of others devours us most of all
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN