Alexander Zinoviev Quotes
'They were right. The Soviet régime is not the embodiment of evil as you think in the West. They have laws and I broke them. I hate tea and they love tea. Who is wrong?
Alexander Zinoviev
Quotes to Explore
I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
Karl Lagerfeld
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
Imelda Marcos
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.
Ilyasah Shabazz
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Calvin Coolidge
In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.
Samuel Beckett
..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in English, French and German - expresses for me the whole history and process of creation, lengthy, mysterious, infinitely complex and foreshadowed by divine predestination.
Wassily Kandinsky
I think living well is the key: trying not to build up regrets for the things we didn't do in our lives; to try to live a regret-free life in which we feel satisfied in what we're doing; and to try to be kind to ourselves and not disappointed in ourselves.
Irvin D. Yalom
From far, from eve and morningAnd yon twelve-winded sky,The stuff of life to knit meBlew hither; here am I.
A. E. Housman
The great affair, we always find, is to get money.
Adam Smith
Tu dolor es tan grande que no debiera dolerte.
Antonio Porchia
