Andrei Zhdanov Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
-
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
-
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
-
I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
-
If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
-
Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
-
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
-
I'm not in the business of politics.
-
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
-
There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.
-
A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that balance has been ridiculously out of whack for a while.
-
I speak the language of television.
-
People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
-
I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.
-
There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.
-
When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
-
The truth seems to be that we live in concepts of the imagination before the reason has established them. If this is true, then reason is simply the methodizer of the imagination.
-
Self-knowledge will reveal the elements of biological human nature from which modern social life proliferated in all its strange forms.
-
There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.
-
I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
-
Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."
-
Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
-
The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death.
