Joseph Stalin Quotes

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

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• When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Young
  • Finish
  • Craft

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Genius
  • Virtue
  • Bright

• Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Change
  • Will
  • Cuba

• To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking

• A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Death
  • Reading
  • Die

• Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Heart
  • Shoes
  • Pink

• The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Poetry

• Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Strong
  • Eyes

• I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Chess

• Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Learning
  • Lies

• A science fiction movie? I don't know. I think I have made one already... Chasing Amy. Because you go ask any lesbian, that'll never happen. Even if, and probably especially because, the dude is Ben fucking Affleck.

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Movie
  • Science
  • Lesbian

• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Country
  • America

• Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Music
  • American
  • Focus

• When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Great

• The level of credit in Mexico has shown to be low. And where credit concentrates the most favors large corporations and not companies.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto

• Our America is integrated by a group of more or less homogeneous countries and in most parts of its territory U.S. monopolist capitals maintain an absolute supremacy. Puppet governments or, in the best of cases, weak and fearful local rulers, are incapable of contradicting orders from their Yankee master.

  

  Che Guevara
  • America

• The American public, especially the people of the Gulf Coast region, deserve to know what happened in the early days of the storm. At every level of government - local, state and federal - the initial response was simply unacceptable, ... push for answers.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • American
  • Government

• And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Person
  • Storm
  • Survive

• There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Storm
  • Fortresses
  • Bolsheviks