Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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• Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • Way
  • Understanding

• In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Understanding
  • System

• The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Life
  • Great
  • Reality

• Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
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  • Step

• I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Day

• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Always
  • Understood
  • Machine

• If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Fame

• I'm not driven by being understood.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Being
  • Understood
  • Driven

• We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Brain

• I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Good
  • Understanding

• I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Up
  • Work
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• I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.

  

  Patrick Duffy
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  • Understood
  • Script

• In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

  

  J. B. Priestley
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• 'Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.' (Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).

  

  Kamisese Mara
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• I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can … But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Soul

• Having acknowledged the measure of the good to be pleasure, i.e., beauty, the European upper classes went back in their comprehension of art to the gross conception of the primitive Greeks which Plato had already condemned. And with this understanding of life, a theory of art was formulated.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Art

• As always, it was necessary to strike a balance between a cavalier disregard for the rules and a professional understanding that some rules were more flexible than others.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Understanding
  • Balance
  • Professional

• We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Compassion

• We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

  

  Donald Trump
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Friendship

• We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in terms of an open democracy, as well as an understanding of the needs for responsibilities and obligations to run alongside the affirmation of individual rights.

  

  David Blunkett
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Democracy

• Because the eternal principle of agency gives us the freedom to choose and think for ourselves, we should become increasingly able to solve problems. We may make the occasional mistake, but as long as we are following gospel principles and guidelines, we can learn from those mistakes and become more understanding of others and more effective in serving them.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
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• All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Up
  • Single

• Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Animal
  • Laws
  • Ethics

• Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Understanding
  • Understood
  • Threads