Duma Quotes & Sayings

The works of nature must all be accounted good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think more to the point, these pivotal times means something other than a politician. I understand the economy. I understand the world. I have a lot of foreign policy experience. I understand bureaucracies. I understand technology, and I understand leadership. — Carly Fiorina

My favorite books all involved people dealing with hardships. — Jeannette Walls

How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe. — Stephen King

The truth is in the details. — Stephen King

She is gazing out into the night, and the night has a thousand eyes, which are mine. — Elie Wiesel

But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took. — Ann Aguirre

With that characteristic touch of late-Romanov rashness, the government, by ukase of August 22, extended prohibition for the duration of the war. As the sale of vodka was a state monopoly, this act at one stroke cut off a third of the government's income. It was well known, commented a bewildered member of the Duma, that governments waging war seek by a variety of taxes and levies to increase income, but never since the dawn of history has a country in time of war renounced the principal source of its revenue. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Birds are holes in heaven through which a man may pass, — Jim Harrison

My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, my view is I'm in Washington to try to work with people. — Mark Pryor

How to Draw a Picture (XII)
Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life. — Stephen King

Pain is the biggest power of love. That's what Wireman says. — Stephen King

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery. — Stephen King

I wonder how you will feel if I hug you with great love and care — Debasish Mridha

[Harry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma. — Viktor Korchnoi

Put an asshole on a plane in Boston an asshole gets off in Seattle — Stephen King

Putin signed legislation that has been floating around the Duma for years: as of July 1st, there will be no swearing in movies and theatrical productions or from the concert stage. — Anonymous

By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really. — James Ponsoldt

The war produced a dreadful desolation in the underground movement. After the arrest of the Duma faction, the Bolsheviks had no centralized party organization at all. The local committees had an episodic existence, and often had no connections with the workers' districts. — Leon Trotsky

I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet. — Ma Jian

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion. — Stephen King

You could never understand what it's like, being this close to death all the time. And — Ransom Riggs

The only way to go on is to go on — Stephen King

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60. — Marat Safin