Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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• The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • Doing
  • Very
  • Well

• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Age
  • Dad

• New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Small
  • Space

• I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Know
  • Prayer

• 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Problem

• I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic. Who knows but men will reduce me from the profession of a philosopher to that of historian of the Inquisition! But they behave to me in order that I may become the ignoramus and the fool of Italy...

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Men
  • May
  • Fool

• Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • History

• After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Gold

• Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Poetry
  • Wishes

• My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Single

• I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

  

  Al Boliska
  • Moments
  • Travel

• One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.

  

  Dave Gibbons

• In 90 minutes, anything can happen.

  

  Antoine Griezmann

• The horror of a death without dignity has so much implications for the people who are left behind.

  

  Brendan Gleeson
  • People
  • Death

• I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.

  

  Bryan Callen
  • Dark
  • Deep

• Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

  

  Charles Churchill
  • Country
  • She

• The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea … the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.

  

  John Updike
  • City

• Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Christian

• Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.

  

  Mae West

• In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • People
  • World
  • Justice

• I do believe in fate.

  

  Emma Bunton Spice Girls
  • Believe
  • Fate

• A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Fate
  • Turns
  • Inevitable