Last Czars Quotes & Sayings

Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. — Michael J. Jackson

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University. — Jason Alexander

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it. — J.K. Rowling

There's nothing worse than falling in love with a person over and over every time you lay eyes on them, especially when you hate their goddamn guts — Tiffanie DeBartolo

If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go. — Charlie Munger

Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage Once more with pomp and greed and rage; Courtly ministers will stop At home and fight to the last drop; By the million men will die In some new horrible agony ... — Robert Graves

I'm a working mother ... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure. — Carnie Wilson

That's what happens. Governments fuck you around. People fuck you around. By the time they're done, you don't know who you are. Especially if you weren't sure to begin with. — Sebastian Rotella

The human mind is an amazing thing. It protects us when we can't protect ourselves. Sometimes when we're holding pain and it gets to be too heavy or goes too deep, we have to give in to it, let it knock us over and pull us all the way down. Once we hit bottom, we rest in a quiet place for a while. Then, when the pain eases and we're ready to face the world again, we come right back up. — Beth Hoffman

The most expensive gift one can give to his friends is TRUST which is obviously of no cost! — Nelson Jack

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines. — Patton Oswalt

She lifted her chin; her head weighed fifty pounds. "You tried to poison me."
Pretty sure I succeeded in that. — Ophelia London

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent. — Franz Kafka

Peter the Great was probably the equal, in dedication, power and ruthlessness, of many of the most successful revolutionary or nationalist leaders. Yet he failed in his chief purpose, which was to turn Russia into a Western nation. And the reason he failed was that he did not infuse the Russian masses with some soul-stirring enthusiasm. He either did not think it necessary or did not know how to make of his purpose a holy cause. It is not strange that the Bolshevik revolutionaries who wiped out the last of the Czars and Romanovs should have a sense of kinship with Peter - a Czar and a Romanov. For his purpose is now theirs, and they hope to succeed where he failed. The Bolshevik revolution may figure in history as much an attempt to modernize a sixth of the world's surface as an attempt to build a Communist economy. The — Eric Hoffer

Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit. — Alexis Ohanian