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

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• Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • See

• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Good
  • Great
  • She

• I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• I love anything to do with history.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Love
  • History
  • Anything

• When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Decision
  • Back

• I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Love
  • May
  • Sometimes

• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Drink

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Think
  • Adversity
  • Most

• I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Light

• You can't hit what you can't see.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • You
  • See
  • Hit

• 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
  • Book
  • Trust
  • Mad

• Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Taken
  • Stars
  • Exist

• We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Long
  • Freedom

• 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
  • Change
  • Inspired
  • Act

• While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Power
  • Growing

• Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Down

• 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
  • Eyes

• Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Time
  • Strong

• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • People
  • Evil

• So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Evil

• '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
  • Evil
  • Soviet
  • Régime