Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Cancer Ward Quotes & Sayings

Wert thou as far
As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea,
I would adventure for such merchandise. — William Shakespeare

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there. — Madonna Ciccone

Education doesn't make you smarter. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

She said there are evil men in the world, truly evil men. Sometimes we hear of them, but more often they work in absolute darkness. — Stephen King

Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities. — Sonja Lyubomirsky

Baby-carrying means your hearts are close together. It's a very intense and beautiful way to bond with your baby, very intimate. It's also easier than a stroller. — Kelly Cutrone

Well! I had the most fantastic dream! Trees crying blood. Horrible dead elves going around and killing people! Raistlin wearing black robes! It was the most incredible thing! And you were there, Sturm. Laurana and Flint. And everyone died! Well, almost everyone. Raistlin didn't. And there was a green dragon-'
Tasslehoff stopped. What was wrong with his friends? Their faces were pale, their eyes wide. — Margaret Weis

Even the finest of jugglers cannot keep a hundred balls in the air forever. — George R R Martin

We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down. — George MacDonald Fraser

There are spirits in Hawaii. They're very protective and very good and they watch over these islands. I must confess, they're not entirely happy with what they see, with the way the civilization is moving. But they're patient. They've been here for a long time, and they'll be here long after the human beings have ceased to inhabit the islands. — Frederick Lenz

The meaning of existence was to preserve untarnished, undisturbed and undistorted the image of eternity which each person is born with - as far as possible.
Like a silver moon in a calm, still pond. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia. — Boris Yeltsin

When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in
that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. — Frances Hodgson Burnett