Leon Trotsky Quotes
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.Leon Trotsky
Quotes to Explore
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The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
Octave Mirbeau -
Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
B. D. Wong -
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
Sam Rayburn -
When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.
Alan Alda -
I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
Angelina Jolie -
The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?
S. M. Stirling
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Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.
T. D. Jakes -
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.
Lisa Kudrow -
Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.
Joanne Rowling -
Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.
Adrian Rogers -
Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
Vance Havner
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That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.
Ursula Nordstrom -
Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.
H. Burke Peterson -
Think of the mystical three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection as the time it takes for a situation to change once spirit has infused our consciousness. As we come to look at an experience differently, in time in begins to transform.
Marianne Williamson -
Twenty-five years now and I still love to watch my wife sleep. I'm fascinated by the way the unconscious self (the deeper self) rises when consciousness falls away and often expresses itself in the face of a sleeper.
David Bottoms -
True Detective is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in his monologues. I think on those days, he Woody Harrelson really had to stay in the zone. Because there's a certain cadence in which that character speaks and talks about life, you know? But then there are other days that he was able to be a little more loose.
Michelle Monaghan -
It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.
Peter Paige