Alexander Zinoviev Quotes

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

Alexander Zinoviev

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• We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Myself
  • Spiritual
  • Somewhat

• My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Editor
  • Publisher

• All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Best
  • Golf

• I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • America
  • Health
  • Blessed

• To talk to people, I have to spend energy talking to them. If I expend my energy on talking to people and making friends, it takes away from the energy I could focus on getting ready to pitch.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Friends
  • Energy

• The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books - but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Law
  • Driving

• When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Think
  • Said

• His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Free
  • Deep
  • Tears

• The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Imagination
  • Secret
  • Civilization

• Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

  

  George Clooney
  • Done
  • Film
  • Wells

• They love the country, and none else, who seek For their own sake its silence and its shade. Delights which who would leave, that has a heart Susceptible of pity, or a mind Cultured and capable of sober thought.

  

  William Cowper
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I don't care who you are, but you turn into a different person when you don't sleep.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Different
  • Sleep
  • Care

• How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Individual
  • Consciousness
  • Comparison

• The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.

  

  Yuri Gagarin
  • Joy
  • Path
  • Grief

• Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

  

  William Landay
  • Personality
  • Imagine
  • Speed

• I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Belief
  • Boat
  • Build

• Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Children
  • Religious

• All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of menб that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Laws
  • Injury
  • Laughed

• I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Change
  • Journalism

• Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

  

  Alexander Zinoviev
  • Laws
  • Gorbachevism
  • Outdo