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ALEKSANDR LEBED Hopefully we'll figure out how to get 'Iron Man 2' going, and I'll be involved with ...
JON FAVREAU Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.
MARY E. PEARSON We've had casino gaming here for 13 years. So we know we're going back at least 14 years. But if we ...
BEVERLY MARTIN We definitely realize that in order to build infrastructure for the local party, we need to start at...
CAROL COX You need time in order to build community. These days, single people live complicated lives and they...
CECILE ANDREWS We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, ...
LUIS GUTIERREZ I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill...
HENNY YOUNGMAN We have a need for vocational training in order to build a future workforce.
DOUG HOCK Forty-two years down and one to go.
LES KYNETT I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coh...
ALAN MOORE We do not have any seniors. In the past, we have always had at least one or two seniors on the team,...
LINDA PRUITT I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.
SATCHEL PAIGE Even though we're at war abroad, we have to remember that democracy continues here at home. That mea...
JANO CABRERA In order to build a system of values you need time and persistence
SUNDAY ADELAJA I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product...
DAVID S. ROSE I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two ...
KHANDI ALEXANDER I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
AYN RAND I can't think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we'll not only preserve our...
JOHN ANDERSON We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets...
NEIL YOUNG Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to ...
SEAN PARKER Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic...
ROBERT BORK In two years, I'll be making more than Michael Schumacher.
NELSON PIQUET We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really n...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY We need at least a week's lead time. Two weeks would be better.
CAROL WOTTON I think we need to be more aware of it. We're just visitors for four years, but they live here and t...
LAURA GODFREY Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye...
RUTH REINHARDT I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for m...
QUIARA ALEGRIA HUDES Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue...
PAUL GAUGUIN (Bridges of Hope) is an outgrowth of the journeys to Israel and Palestine. We hope to build a bridge...
ALLISON HINE We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's ...
MOLLY IVINS If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot...
BILL FLORES I believe our country has to do whatever we can do to protect ourselves-we're king of the hill. ...
RICK YUNE Two of the most basic responsibilities we have on this earth are to put God first in our lives and o...
ZACK WAMP Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
AL NEUHARTH Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
ALLEN NEUHARTH I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
MOLLY IVINS She went to Geneva? You know what, we didn't discuss it. She's been at Montini for two years and fee...
JASON NICHOLS It took me six months to redeem myself at least to have another chance to at least have her get to k...
DREW BREES We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
BUCK HENRY My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and...
STANA KATIC We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we d...
WADADA LEO SMITH The countries urgently need international assistance to build up basic surveillance and control syst...
JOSEPH DOMENECH I tell everybody there are only three things that we do. We build sales at the store level, we build...
FRED DELUCA A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the S...
JACK ABRAMOFF We need to get those two games and build some confidence.
CECIL RATLIFF We have been building it for four years. We've been using it for at least two.
BARB FOX We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to...
MARK ZUCKERBERG I've been here 17 years, and it has been here at least that long.
BARBARA GANN I'm saying that more than a hundred weapons out of the supposed number of 250 are not under the cont...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past an...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
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 bor...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.
ALEKSANDR LEBED For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.
ALEKSANDR LEBED First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is ca...
ALEKSANDR LEBED As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their de...
ALEKSANDR LEBED And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, ...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their pas...
ALEKSANDR LEBED 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 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 I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure tha...
LARRY DAVID We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called ...
MAURICE STRONG It's about the next generation of the Internet. No matter how far it may seem we've come in 24 years...
PAUL MARITZ Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, youneed at least four of them, and ...
BILLY WILDER When I sit down to make a set list I usually think, 'We'll build it up here, take it down he...
TRENT REZNOR Forty-two years with the Cleveland Indians, and I'm going to steal you away.
CHARLIE MANUEL In life there are two kinds of vision timing;The maize vision timing;here you plant & harvest within...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democrac...
ENRIQUE PENA NIETO Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, go...
PAUL GAUGUIN Candidates must figure on the short-list at least two years running to win,
HORACE ENGDAHL The need to figure out how we can build those bridges so we can understand what's in our community, ...
WALT BLOMBERG The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a nu...
COLIN ANGLE There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll r...
BRUCE LIPTON So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be cal...
ROGER NASH BALDWIN Working hard? It only took Jesus three years to change the lives of countless nations and generation...
KIM BOOHER I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
AYN RAND Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tin...
SUSAN GEORGE The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at ...
FRED SABERHAGEN Once in a while I'll order an omelet, 'cause I'm not very good at making omelets.
CHERYL HINES In the immortal words of LL Cool J, 'I've been here for years,'
MARIAH CAREY Now at least we know what we're letting ourselves in for. I'm enjoying it more two years down the ro...
BOB HARDY I like looking at a future where we're expanding our creativity and brightening our lives. I bel...
STEVE AOKI It's been 24 years. Hopefully this will be drawing 24 years of a chase to a close, at least to get I...
IRA EINHORN How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially...
SUSAN GEORGE We don't need love to be eternal, only to be in our lives here and now.
MARTY RUBIN My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.
CATHY LADMAN I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
ROLAND JOFFE There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the wo...
ROSCOE SNOWDEN HOPE VI isn't here just to build houses. It's here to build lives. The hope is, if construction is f...
DAN MOORE You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in orde...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in orde...
G. K. CHESTERTON You can never have a revolution in order to establish a
democracy. You must have a democracy in or...
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON At the beginning of the new century, our two countries must do their utmost to overcome the legacy o...
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard...
BEN SCHNETZER If that takes two days, two weeks, two years, twenty years, that's what we do here with victims in o...
JEANIE REIMER I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one...
CHARLIE WORSHAM Along with the death of innocence dies ignorance. If at least in its most basic form.
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In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.
ALEKSANDR LEBED I'm saying that more than a hundred weapons out of the supposed number of 250 are not under the cont...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past an...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
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 bor...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.
ALEKSANDR LEBED For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.
ALEKSANDR LEBED First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is ca...
ALEKSANDR LEBED As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their de...
ALEKSANDR LEBED And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's power, ...
ALEKSANDR LEBED I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their pas...
ALEKSANDR LEBED 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 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's not clear whether we have a president or not.
ALEXANDER LEBED The peace process is in motion. The joint patrols are working; local commanders have started to with...
ALEXANDER LEBED It's possible to take the city, of course. Even Berlin was taken. But we spent tens of thousands of ...
ALEXANDER LEBED We must pull apart the fighters first. If this step is made, then we can talk about the next steps.
ALEXANDER LEBED We don't have any judicial explanation for this war. No one knows who started it ... The first prior...
ALEXANDER LEBED It's been long since I've lost all fears and concerns. I don't worry, I calculate.
ALEXANDER LEBED I know for sure that Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is a very sick person. He must resign because of his...
ALEXANDER LEBED Today Yeltsin is alone. People are pushed to the extreme. Western investors have become fierce and a...
ALEXANDER LEBED Tell me where we are going to get the money from? It will cost Russia $150 million.
ALEXANDER LEBED We should announce to the entire world that we will provide military and technical aid to Yugoslavia...
ALEXANDER LEBED When a man is out of the game, he must restore his health without any rush, return to satisfactory c...
ALEXANDER LEBED For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surf...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN What is going on today is the seizure of power by unconstitutional means.
ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH The mood of the people now is different. The people will laugh now, and that is what the authorities...
ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH It is a horrible violation of human rights and the law. They do not consider us to be people.
ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN One touch from you...,” water coated his lips, gathered in thick drops on his dark lashes, “make...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outwei...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russia...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated pe...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITZYN We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us... than the need for any extern...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion e...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism,...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been foll...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Ages ago men realized that being emotional brings out their weakness, but they haven't realized that...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV A smart man reads the quotes; a wise man lives by the quotes.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Time ticks, time flies, what have you done in your life?
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Relationship is more than love, but it's all about love.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV If you are reading this quote you are not dead, if you are not dead then you are alive, if you are a...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV When we were young pain made us cry, but as we aged pain became bearable but the emotional pain took...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV When you're alive you wonder how to live your life to the fullest, how to have accomplishment, succe...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Right now, at this moment, realize that you are living in the present, that you are living in realit...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Life seems endless, life seems to go on and on until you lay on your death-bed!
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV The only way to begin, change, and success is to simplify and go step by step. Don't even bother wri...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV This is a political action, a political sentence. Leaders of leading political parties are behind ba...
ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH What is going on in Belarus can be compared to the storm of a fortress. This was the first storm. We...
ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing dow...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a sma...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I need you.” He could not go any further down. Rock bottom. And at the very bottom was just this o...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV … What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, I'll spell it out for you right...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes becaus...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Tomorrow will never come, now is the tomorrow.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
ALEKSANDR KUPRIN Then came the time for the evening visit to the toilet, for which, in all likelihood, you had waited...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice ha...
ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN I'm a poor businessman. I find it uncomfortable to ask for money, to tell the truth.
ALEKSANDR PODRABINEK Brecht said it, 'It's an unhappy country that needs heroes. That's true. They are not needed in a no...
ALEKSANDR PODRABINEK Repertory theater allows you to spend your whole life perfecting yourself.
ALEKSANDR KALYAGIN In no other city in the world do you see what's happening in Moscow. In no other country is there so...
ALEKSANDR KALYAGIN What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest o...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West t...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a stat...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Knighthood. Was he even worthy? Just a little while ago, he’d have answered yes without a doubt, b...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is requir...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Life of excuses is a life of regret.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Past is just memories so leave good memories for yourself.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myse...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A sing...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'reje...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and t...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN ...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Life is amazing once you get to know it.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV People search for love based on appearance, but they forgot about attitude and personality.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV The meaning of life is to find a purpose to live for.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV “Thank God you are still alive for many have died and are dying as I speak. You still have the opp...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Morality, it is the most important characteristic of humanity, without it we are lost forever.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Morality, it is the most important characteristic of humanity, without it we are like animals.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Stop feeling sorry for yourself, get out and be what you wish to be.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV If you expect too much and do too little, you are bound for disappointment. If you talk too much and...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV We live in the 21st century, the wisest generation yet to come, where you have the freedom to say an...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV I had a chance to read
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, bel...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN But there is a limit, and beyond it one is no longer willing, one finds it too repulsive, to be a re...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN One should not consider that the great principles of freedom end at your own frontiers, that as long...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhe...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, for
coming home, for dealing with all the sh...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN [He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor ye...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If you could only live once, once only, how would you live or change your life? Why don't you?
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Think twice before you make a mistake that you'll regret for the rest of your life.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reform...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswor...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Look around you--there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN History has in different questions laid out some tremendous turnabouts and curves.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when yo...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN - Не иначе как двенадцать, - объявил и Шухов. - Солнышко н...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.
ALEKSANDR KUPRIN Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You want the truth? I’ve been fucked and betrayed often enough to not trust anybody. And that incl...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his p...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN (Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this conc...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national h...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
ALEKSANDR KUPRIN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed undernea...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Here march the eaters of earth,
the swallowers of rain.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON Live in the moment... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that ...
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON