Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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• Rotations

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  Dan Quisenberry
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• We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

  

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• I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

  

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• The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

  

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• Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

  

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• I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
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• God says in the Quran that there is only one true religion, God's religion. It's the same theme that God revealed to all of the prophets, even before Muhammad.

  

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• Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.

  

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• I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

  

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• Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

  

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• The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

  

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• I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Machine
  • Excessive
  • Rotations