The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.


J. Aleksandr Wootton

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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
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
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
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT
No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT
When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT
I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT
Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT
If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT
I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT
My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT
If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT
I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT
When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT
You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT
I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT
A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT
I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT
I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT
There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT
I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT
People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT
If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT
I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT
Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON
There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON
I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON
Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON
We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD
You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD