Bitkisel Orhanlar Quotes & Sayings

Once in power, Stalin's campaign to succeed Lenin required a legitimate heroic career which he did not possess because of his experience in what he called 'the dirty business' of politics: this could not be told, either because it was too gangsterish for a great, paternalistic statesman or because it was too Georgian for a Russian leader. His solution was a clumsy but all-embracing cult of personality that invented, distorted and concealed the truth. Ironically this self-promotion was so grotesque that it fanned sparks, sometimes innocent ones, which flared up into colossal anti-Stalin conspiracy-theories. It was easy for his political opponents, and later for us historians, to believe that it was all invented and that he had done nothing much at all - particularly since few historians had researched in the Caucasus where so much of his early career took place. An anti-cult, as erroneous as the cult itself, grew up around these conspiracy-theories. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation. — David Keirsey

I don't mind being distracted. — Ruth Rendell

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare. — Mark Twain

Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind. — Anthony Liccione

Find joy in simplicity and positivity. — Debasish Mridha

Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign. — Paul Valery

Learning is rebellion ... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. — Margaret Lee Runbeck

Once you have swung a pickax that will reveal the curve of a street four thousand years covered over which was once an active, much-traveled highway, you are never quite the same again. — Thornton Wilder

He knew that the dread in these men's minds was not of the fact, but of his naming it - as if the fact had not existed, but his words held the power to make it exist. — Ayn Rand

One was tired of everything, it seemed. One launched into enthusiasms only to collapse gracefully, and pick oneself up amid sympathetic laughter. — E. M. Forster