Belochkin Quotes & Sayings

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God. — Muhammad Ali

I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time. — Frederick Lenz

The perception of edges (seeing where one thing ends and another starts) The perception of spaces (seeing what lies beside and beyond) The perception of relationships (seeing in perspective and in proportion) The perception of lights and shadows (seeing things in degrees of values) The perception of the gestalt (seeing the whole and its parts) — Betty Edwards

To be completely apolitical and only live for culture is to risk becoming a dandy. To disdain culture and care only for politics is to become mired in soulless earnestness. Balancing the claims of culture and politics is a difficult task but a necessary one, in order to make culture properly grounded in social awareness and politics rightly respectful of aesthetic values. — Jeet Heer

What chatty Madam Shpolyanski mentioned had conjured up Mira's image with unusual force. This was disturbing. Only in the detachment of an incurable complaint, in the sanity of near death, could one cope with this for a moment. In order to exist rationally, Pnin had taught himself ... never to remember Mira Belochkin - not because ... the evocation of a youthful love affair, banal and brief, threatened his peace of mind ... but because, if one were quite sincere with oneself, no conscience, and hence no consciousness, could be expected to subsist in a world where such things as Mira's death were possible. One had to forget - because one could not live with the thought that this graceful, fragile, tender young woman with those eyes, that smile, those gardens and snows in the background, had been brought in a cattle car and killed by an injection of phenol into the heart, into the gentle heart one had heard beating under one's lips in the dusk of the past. — Vladimir Nabokov

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him. — John Wayne

Dust shall he eat, and greedily,
like my celebrated serpent-cousin — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He taught me that it's okay to be a star, but to never forget that there are millions of other stars out there waiting for someone to recognize them for what they are - to treat people as if they too are important, special, and full of light. — Emily Page

Breathing hurt my shoulder, screaming hurt, but it was all I could do. — Trish Marie Dawson

Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you're really a yawn if it goes — Bette Midler

Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely. — Cheshire Cat

In other words, who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege? — Slavoj Zizek

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. — Gautama Buddha