Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • American
  • Said
  • Once

• The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Politics
  • President
  • Once

• My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Door
  • Fight
  • Once

• You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Just
  • Once

• Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Up
  • You
  • Rights

• Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Know
  • Flowers
  • Gardening

• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Emotion
  • Flowers

• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Road

• Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Need
  • Once
  • Awhile

• For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Two
  • Once
  • Decades

• Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Flowers
  • Fruit
  • Too Late

• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Proud
  • Beauty

• Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Fight
  • Once

• I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Picture

• I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Home
  • Living
  • Once

• Once a champion, always a champion.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Always
  • Champion
  • Once

• Flowers are happy things.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Happy
  • Flowers
  • Gardening

• My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Window
  • Skills
  • Once

• I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • United States
  • Iraq

• The best compliment we ever got about the show was from a Korean veteran who was unable to talk about his war experience with his wife until 'M*A*S*H.' While watching the show, he was able to lean over to his wife and say, 'See, honey, that's the way it was.'

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Experience
  • War
  • Wife

• As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• She's 16 now, so young, but she's matured quite a bit

  

  Cristie Kerr
  • She
  • Young
  • Matured

• It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Flowers
  • Once
  • Bloom