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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes onl...
WHY THE LUCKY STIFF To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday mo...
PHIL DONAHUE Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.
CASEY STENGEL Solzhenitsyn.
DAVID BALDACCI The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
BENNETT CERF Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes yo...
JODI PICOULT Women worry earlier, so they are more knowledgeable about good nutrition at an earlier age.
JOY BAUER Why people do that in case it can be predicted like the table of chess, why people are liars and hyp...
DEYTH BANGER There seem to be fans, a cross-section too, age-wise, people who dug it in the Seventies and people ...
DAN HICKS The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Why live for the day, when you know the next one is going to be exactly the same.
HUGO SVENSSON Life is a canvas it starts off plain and simple to become your own masterpiece.Gary F Evans...
GARY F EVANS... You only go through High School once, but if you go through the way we did, that's enough.
STEVEN C. SMITH That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present
SYDNEY SMITH في شبابنا نريد أن نغير العالم .. في شيخوختنا نريد أن نغي�...
أنيس منصور Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL Those who worry stumble long The Way.
Those who pray have no time to stray.
ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
DR. SEUSS And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
THE WEEKND I'm the most boring person to talk to.
THE WEEKND Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
THE TALMUD He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
THE TALMUD Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
THE TALMUD If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
THE KORAN When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
THE TALMUD This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj...
THE MAHABHARTA The sun will set without thy assistance.
THE TALMUD A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
THE TALMUD Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
THE TALMUD The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
THE TALMUD A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
THE TALMUD Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
THE TALMUD Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
THE TALMUD Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
THE TALMUD A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
THE BIBLE Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
THE BIBLE If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
THE BIBLE Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ru...
THE BIBLE Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise ma...
THE BIBLE A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
THE BIBLE Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.
THE BIBLE And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom...
THE BIBLE And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, a...
THE BIBLE But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are ...
THE BIBLE Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
THE BIBLE A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
THE BIBLE Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
THE BIBLE Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of...
THE BIBLE When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall pre...
THE BIBLE For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their...
THE BIBLE The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou cri...
THE BIBLE Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
THE BIBLE Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
THE BIBLE A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
THE BIBLE There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...
THE BIBLE And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great te...
THE BIBLE Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see t...
THE BIBLE He who works his land will have abundant food.
THE BIBLE God helps those who persevere.
THE KORAN Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
THE TALMUD And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords...
THE BIBLE The highest form of wisdom is kindness
THE TALMUD The burden is equal to the horse's strength.
THE TALMUD Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and ...
THE TALMUD Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
THE TALMUD Sheep follow sheep.
THE TALMUD Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
THE TALMUD When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonica...
THE WEEKND This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make u...
THE MENTOR For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you're doing something good.
THE WEEKND The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in 'The Dark Knight' had the scar across his mouth,...
THE WEEKND 'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't le...
THE WEEKND The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It...
THE EDGE It wasn’t that everything was going my way, but I began to believe that the way it was going was p...
THE HIPPIE Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.
THE SCRIPT It was strange that in some sort of Jeffrey Dahmer meets Ghandi way I was
able to love myself f...
THE HIPPIE I don't think I'd ever apologise for music I make, no.
THE WEEKND My closet is like Bart Simpson's.
THE WEEKND I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this mater...
THE WEEKND Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rai...
THE WEEKND

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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes becaus...
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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.
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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 Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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.
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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 Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN What is going on today is the seizure of power by unconstitutional means.
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ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH It is a horrible violation of human rights and the law. They do not consider us to be people.
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ALEKSANDR LEBED I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
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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 One touch from you...,” water coated his lips, gathered in thick drops on his dark lashes, “make...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITZYN 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?
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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!
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ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV This is a political action, a political sentence. Leaders of leading political parties are behind ba...
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ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH I need you.” He could not go any further down. Rock bottom. And at the very bottom was just this o...
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ALEKSANDR LEBED Tomorrow will never come, now is the tomorrow.
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ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN I'm a poor businessman. I find it uncomfortable to ask for money, to tell the truth.
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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 Knighthood. Was he even worthy? Just a little while ago, he’d have answered yes without a doubt, b...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV Life of excuses is a life of regret.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Past is just memories so leave good memories for yourself.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV 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.
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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 Stop feeling sorry for yourself, get out and be what you wish to be.
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ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Think twice before you make a mistake that you'll regret for the rest of your life.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.
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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