Ivan Balabanov Quotes & Sayings

The problem ... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on. — John McCain

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. — Herman Melville

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age. — Suzanne Vega

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery. — Bertrand Russell

How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating? — John Wooden

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough - but it's just as bad to use the present to justify the past. — Amitav Ghosh

She says isn't it funny how every second, every minute, every day, month, year, is accounted for, capable of being named - when time, or life, is so unwieldy, so intangible and slippery? This makes her feel compassion toward the people who invented the concept of "telling time." How hopeful, she says. How beautifully futile. How perfectly human. — Miriam Toews

My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs. — Stompin' Tom Connors

My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process. — Steve Winwood

You walked into my life and made it a hundred times better, honey. — Lila Felix

A lot of the things I've enjoyed the most and that I think have been the best are ensembles. — David Morse

A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Not only did I change city and country, but also all the people. If this might seem strange, it is even stranger that I hardly ever reflect on it. How did I end up here? Why did things turn out like this? — Karl Ove Knausgard

If he was like any of his music, he would be complex, explosive, sweet, sensual, and passionate. — Kailin Gow