Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

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• I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Stills
  • Village
  • Mets

• Always try the problem that matters most to you.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Matter

• All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Know
  • Evil
  • Solitude

• One word from you shall silence me forever.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Forever
  • Silence

• No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Character
  • Moral

• Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Black
  • Ambition
  • Chinese

• He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Escape

• If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

  

  Allison Mackie
  • Time
  • Criticism
  • Useful

• I didn't even have a portfolio, but I went to Tom Ford the next morning. He said, "I'd love you to come in with me. Get a lawyer." It was quite exciting, obviously, because it was a complete departure. But mind you, what he was looking for was the exact opposite of what I thought. My first collection for him was Cher-inspired. It was flower trousers, California, hippie cool, all the stuff I did at Oscar. It was making me sick. I wanted to see the other side of the spectrum. Tom was always very secure about the way he did things, so it was quite interesting for me.

  

  Francisco Costa
  • Interesting
  • Morning
  • Flower

• I like to run a lot. I like to chase the ball.

  

  Jose Reyes
  • Run
  • Ball
  • Chase

• Life is not to live merely, but to live well.

  

  Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
  • Life is
  • Well

• I hope that at this moment you are thinking of yourself as a human being rather than as an American, Asian, European, African, or member of any particular country. These loyalties are secondary.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • American

• There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Video

• Evening fell, there were lights here and there upon the ships, scattered lights on the shore, faint lights in the sky, and still the silence was unbroken and the peace profound. Those on shore saw phantom ships upon the sea now, and those on board saw phantom white villages gleaming along the shore, and after the habit of human kind each man yearned to be where the other was, and saw in the place where he was not his heart’s desire.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Desire
  • Silence
  • Habit

• We are all passengers aboard one ship, the Earth, and we must not allow it to be wrecked. There will be no second Noah's Ark.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Ships
  • Passengers