Ivanovsky Russia Quotes & Sayings

Everyone here has a different gripe, large or small. The bad fish, for instance, which I'm told is caught in polluted rivers and can be deadly. The biggest complaint, though, is the lack of queuing. "It's not first-come, first-served, it's most-obnoxious, first-served," says Abby. The lack of trust is another popular gripe. "Friends don't even trust friends. If bad things happen to their friends, people think, 'Good, maybe it won't happen to me,' " says one volunteer. Corruption is another theme. Paying professors for passing grades is widespread, so much so that Moldovans won't go to doctors under thirty-five years old. They suspect - with good reason - that they bought their degrees. Thus, the radius of mistrust is widened. — Eric Weiner

There is no harm in not forgetting. Think of a small ship amid storming waters - raging and cruel; who forgets that? Not the man who was rescued. Never the man who rescued consciously. Neither the man whose kin could not be rescued. Nor the man who decided not to rescue. — Ashfaq Saraf

I take for granted that you'll be there when I'm done doing whatever it is I'm doing. I take for granted that you'll love me no matter what. — Rainbow Rowell

Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything. Yes, a man in the nineteenth century must and morally ought to be pre-eminently a characterless creature; a man of character, an active man is pre-eminently a limited creature. That is my conviction of forty years. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Money just draws flies. — Mahalia Jackson

Humanity has more in common than the differences that separate us. — Tom Giaquinto

Lies make for pathetic allies. — T.F. Hodge

Whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves. — Hannah Arendt

I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here. — Morning Star

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. — Gustave Courbet

Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way — Roger Waters

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift. — Max Cannon

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things. — Anne Bancroft

There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page. — Charles De Lint