Alexandra Kollontai Quotes

Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

Alexandra Kollontai

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• One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Problems
  • Everyone
  • Solve

• If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Would
  • Been
  • Macho

• I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • President
  • Prison

• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Man
  • Thing

• Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Jews

• The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities - these are the basic guarantees of the sure triumph of our cause.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • Country
  • Unity

• There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.

  

  Man Ray
  • Different
  • Art
  • Progress

• Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last; Nurses to their graves are gone, And the prams go rolling on.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Nurse

• I am alive when your fingers are.

  

  Anne Sexton

• My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Nature
  • Painting

• El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Different
  • Family
  • Heart

• I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Hero
  • Intelligent

• I will say this: One thing I did see in my reporting again and again is that the Obamas themselves are much more involved in handling stories than is usually known.

  

  Jodi Kantor

• 'Play It Again Sam's opening shot is the same as 'Purple Rose's final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I've certainly felt that in my life. I've been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Movie

• I think Hillary Clinton's probably going to be indicted, is my guess. So anything she can do to deflect from her email scandal and other scandals which are coming down is probably good for her.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Good
  • She

• I have only an office here, and no opinion.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Opinion
  • Office
  • Here

• There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• Young Asian males are nine times as likely as white youth to belong to a gang and Hispanic youth are 19 times more likely. A disproportionate share of Hispanic young and poor are thus assimilating into a misogynistic, rebellious, youth sub-culture of drugs, gangs, crime, contempt for formal education, and hostility to police.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Police

• Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Trust

• Prologues like compliments are loss of time;’T is penning bows and making legs in rhyme.

  

  David Garrick
  • Time

• Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

  

  Alexandra Kollontai
  • Fate
  • Bureaucracy
  • Decides