Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
-
I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
-
I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.
-
Chrysler invented rebates, I'm sorry to say. I didn't have anything to do with that. A lot of flaky deals were made in order to give the customer enough cash for a down payment.
-
Since I've been here, they've made great decisions. And I'm sure they'll make the right decision here.
-
O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.
-
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
-
Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.
-
It's taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.
-
I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.
-
The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.
-
My favourite food is definitely paani puri.
-
Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.
-
I find it worth while to help clean up the mess made by malevolence and folly. But I do try not to like the mess for its own sake.
-
Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
-
In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
-
The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy.
-
I wish there was a serious investigation into flying saucers that wasn't conducted by crackpots. Unfortunately nearly all of the people who are interested in them kind of manufacture the evidence to fit the theories rather than the other way around. So it's very hard to find any dispassionate treatment of them. Maybe there isn't any scientific basis in which case that's why you never see any scientific evidence.
