Alexander Volkov Quotes

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

Alexander Volkov

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• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Believe
  • Man
  • You

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything. It was for 'Chicago.' There were probably three hundred people there.

  

  Kate Levering
  • People
  • Up
  • New York

• I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Tennis
  • Court
  • Only

• Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Time
  • World
  • Soul

• I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Experience
  • Truth

• In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Girl

• As my poor father used to sayIn 1863,Once people start on all this ArtGoodbye, moralitee!

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • People
  • Father

• I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song, 'Hallelujah'.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Great
  • Song
  • Respect

• I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Real

• It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Sister

• Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Life

• I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.

  

  Aynsley Dunbar

• Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Graduation

• Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having very extreme hair, either amazingly beautiful straight hair or kind of wild.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • People
  • Family
  • Home

• I can't imagine trying to operate a company banking on the fact that my logo is cooler than somebody else's logo.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Trying

• Beauty is about what's inside us, loving who we are and nurturing that. Outward beauty can really blossom from there.

  

  Connie Britton

• A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Partnership

• It’s the feeling of total control. When you are properly trained, your body works hard — but when you move, you do not suffer. That’s the feeling I am looking for.

  

  Ueli Steck
  • Feeling
  • Control
  • Moving

• Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

  

  Alexander Volkov
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Changing