Figes Revolutionary Quotes & Sayings

When people get drunk they do things they shouldn't do. — Johnny Hunt

If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything. — G.I. Gurdjieff

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good. — Barbra Streisand

It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary. — Orlando Figes

Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis ... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so. — Orlando Figes

We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works. — Zoe Kazan

Time has a texture. Each period of waiting looms its own design. For Abigail, this one was shot through with golden threads. -Those Who Love, p. 130 — Irving Stone

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace. — Mike Birbiglia

You humble me," he told her hoarsely. — Shannon Gardener

A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies. — Mona Simpson