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

• In the beginning there was Dust, and in the end there will be Dust, and in the middle there is Dust, Dust, Dust!

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Middle

• 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

• Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Beautiful
  • Peace
  • Succession

• In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

  

  William Dampier
  • Water
  • Half
  • Miles

• I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • House
  • Qualities
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• My sweet heart, you have aroused my passion, your touch has filled me with desire, I am no longer separate from you, these are precious moments, I beseech you, don’t let me wait.

  

  Rumi
  • Desire
  • Passion
  • Wait

• 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