Akhmadulina Dreams Quotes & Sayings

Workers of lungless labs- when dying
Will you be proud you were midwife
To implements exemplifying
Assaults against the heart of life?
You knew their purpose, yet you made them.
If you had scruples, you betrayed them.
What pastoral response acquits
Those who made ovens for Auschwitz?
Indeed it is said that the banality
Of evil is its greatest shock.
It jokes. It punches its time clock,
Plays with its kids. The triviality
Of slaughtering millions can't impinge
Upon its peace, or make it cringe. — Vikram Seth

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself. — Michelle Pfeiffer

She wants to have hiked; I want to have had dessert. — Anne Lamott

I stand more
soberly on the threshold
at the moment important
for coming back to you

freely — Anne Parian

And the biggest reward was reaping the kind of life I deserved. — Judy Duarte

If you want to be a party animal, you have to learn to live in the jungle. — Kelly LeBrock

Children want to feel as though their life matters. — Asa Don Brown

Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: Please don't despair. — Nathan Wolfe

Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly ... Many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too: Yea, we must accept his person first, and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage covenant, so it is here. — John Flavel

Certainly I have no faith in Jehovah, although I think it quite likely that Jesus Christ, as a preacher and a wise man, did indeed exist. — Terry Pratchett

I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit. — Sean Connery