Fedotov Painter Quotes & Sayings

When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy. — Steven Pinker

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty. — George Orwell

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. — Raoul Vaneigem

Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears. — Aeschylus

Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming. — E. O. Wilson

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again - we have pledged to remove Saddam and we will deliver — Tony Blair

The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics. — C.V. Wedgwood

the chief and grand means of edification, without which all other helps will disappoint us, and prove like clouds without water - are the Bible and prayer - the Word of grace and the Throne of grace. — John Newton

One religion is as true as another. — Robert Burton

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions. — Albert Einstein