Kaganovich And Stalin Quotes & Sayings

It is not important to be what you want to be. It's the ability to be what you are supposed to be that matters. — A. Spencer

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape. — Eric Bana

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness. — Edmund Wilson

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others. — Arno Gruen

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,
Saved others' names, but left his own unsung. — Walter Scott

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.' — Joe Jamail

For his part, Jazz knew he was handsome. It had nothing to do with looking in the mirror, which he rarely did. It had everything to do with the way the girls at school looked at him, the way they became satellites when he walked by, their orbits contorted by his own mysterious gravity. If attention could be measured like the Doppler effect, girls would show a massive blue shift in his presence. In the last year or so, he had even remarked the scrutiny of older women - teachers, cashiers at stores, the woman who delivered UPS packages to his house. What had once been a maternal flavor in their glances had taken on a lingering, cool sort of appraisal. He could almost hear them thinking, Not yet. But soon.
Despite his upbringing, despite the infamy of his father, they still watched him. Or maybe because of it. Maybe Howie was right about bad boys. — Barry Lyga

I'd consider it profession enough to have streaky bleached hair, to wear a green scarf, to spill spicy teas, to walk (slightly) unevenly on high heels. What more is there to give to the world than that? I realize this sentiment of mine is currently considered appalling, but these days I find the popularity of ideas even more meaningless than ever before. — Rivka Galchen

Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; Heaven so real that we must have men there. — Hudson Taylor

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that. — John Darnielle

Billions of dollars have been put into genetic research. — Anne Wojcicki