Svetlana Alexievich (Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich) Quotes

All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.

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• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • World
  • Men
  • War

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Want
  • Computers

• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  

  Nate Silver
  • World
  • Real
  • Know

• But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Nails

• If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • You
  • Better

• I'm good at keeping secrets.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Good
  • Secrets
  • Keeping

• Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sorrow
  • Ground
  • Holy

• A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People
  • Political
  • Ignorance

• What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he’s done, and that’s as good as any man ever gets.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Done
  • Bad

• This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Why
  • Power
  • Technology

• In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he Pursewarden had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language'. (VIII)

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Truth

• You could fire a grapefruit out of a cannon over the best law schools in the country - and that includes Chicago - and not hit an originalist.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Country
  • Law
  • Fire

• A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • People
  • Men
  • Interesting

• All great achievements require time.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Time
  • Great

• A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • People
  • Experience
  • Addiction

• Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Feel
  • Sweet

• The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Daniel
  • Prophecies

• My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Parents
  • Husband
  • Down

• I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Dark

• All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history.

  

  Svetlana Alexievich
  • History
  • Soul
  • Misses