Dniepr Quotes & Sayings

Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting. — Andrew McDermott

The secular power, on the contrary, was in the hands of kings and barons of Teutonic descent, who endeavoured to preserve what they could of the institutions that they had brought out of the forests of Germany. Absolute power was alien to those institutions, and so was what appeared to these vigorous conquerors as a dull and spiritless legality. The king had to share his power with the feudal aristocracy, — Bertrand Russell

Whatever we saw in October 1941, cannot be compared to anything that we had seen prior, when our forces retreated from the Dniepr borders. Now, things like this no longer happen. Now, we can frown by ourselves. — Ivan Bagramyan

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books. — Andrei Sinyavsky

Tony Abbott is the Prime Minister of Australia. Tony Abbott will be coming to Victoria on a regular basis. — Denis Napthine

You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy. — Bob Geldof

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him. — Plato

The dream is not a somatic but a psychic phenomenon. You appreciate the significance — Sigmund Freud

So don't make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed. — Epictetus

You have the freedom to choose to be optimistic or pessimistic. You can peel off your old attitude like a suit of clothes, and put on a brand spanking new attitude every single day. It's as simple as that. — Rhonda Byrne

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange. — Robert Kegan

The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration. — Tom Joyner