Lazhecknikov Quotes & Sayings

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution. — Aristotle.

I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am i making any sound at all? — Alice Oseman

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm ... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art. — Georges Braque

It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you. — Kim Kardashian

Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that
was not born outdoors while moving about freely. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What lies there. Hidden underneath. Beneath all the understanding, the goodwill. We do not disturb it. — Merethe Lindstrom

Leading, not following We've been trained to follow. In fact, the very nature of training has following built right into it. We follow instructions. We follow the rules. We follow the leader. The challenge in a six-billion person world is that we don't have a shortage of followers. Followers are easy to find, and the tools for compliance are more powerful (but less useful) than ever. Now the economy is demanding leaders. Human beings who can engage in what it really means to be a person - to forge connections, to see a path and to make a difference. — Seth Godin

When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict. — Stephen Sondheim

Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal. — Vironika Tugaleva

Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or rather he had tried to plagiarize them without much success, which led him, after long reflection (a whole summer night), to the astute decision that he should write in the manner of Odoevsky and Lazhechnikov. Fifty percent Odoevsky and fifty percent Lazhecknikov. This went over well, in part because readers, their memories mostly faulty, had forgotten poor Odoevsky (1803-1869) and poor Lazhechnikov (1792-1869), who died the same year, and in part because literary criticism, as keen as ever, neither extrapolated nor made the connection nor noticed a thing. — Roberto Bolano

How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury? — Ingvar Kamprad

I don't trade for excitement; I trade to win — Larry Hite