Lebedev Quotes & Sayings

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom. — Alexander Lebedev

He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to the living spirit and light within him, and avenged himself on the world by enriching it with this record of his own transcendental ideal. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy ... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but Germany, my friend, is playing a very different tune. Germany has many more birds in her sights than just France ...
Shabelsky: Nonsense! ... In my view the German are cowards and the French are cowards ... They're just thumbing their noses at each other. Believe me, things will stop there. They won't fight.
Borkin: And as I see it, why fight? What's the point of these
armaments, congresses, expenditures? You know what I'd do? I'd gather together dogs from all over the country, give them a good dose of rabies and let them loose in enemy country. In a month all my enemies would be running rabid. — Anton Chekhov

But doesn't love cause too much pain?" she said. "To be worth it?" "It causes pain, indeed," Grumpy said. "But it's worth it. It's a good pain. — Odette Beane

Kosykh: What the hell ... is there really no one even to talk to? We might as well be living in Australia: no common interests, no solidarity ... Everyone lives separate lives ... But I must go ... it's time. [Takes his cap.] Time is precious. [Gives Lebedev his hand.] I pass! — Anton Chekhov

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia. — Alexander Lebedev

I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it. — Alexander Lebedev

There's a reason why movie theatres don't encourage people to bring their goats. — Kelly Link

That kind of love was a thing to be snatched up and crushed in the jaws of real life. — Andrew Davidson

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder. — Alexander Lebedev

Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation. — Alexander Lebedev

Fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment. — Edna O'Brien

I don't believe in democracy by bayonet. — Alexander Lebedev

hand gripped his aspirator, but, oddly, his asthma had not closed down as it had on the day he fled from the hobo with the rotted nose. There was only that sense of standing still and watching the house slide stealthily — Stephen King

She couldn't actually think of a time when Colton Brooks hadn't owned a little piece of her heart. — Laura Kaye

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics. — Alexander Lebedev

'21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with the heart. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can't give in to extortion. — Alexander Lebedev

Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh ... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one. — Anton Chekhov

Lebedev: ... There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life. — Anton Chekhov

It seems to be in fashion among Russian politicians to blame Berezovsky for everything. Soon they'll be holding him responsible for global warming, earthquakes and tsunamis. — Alexander Lebedev

I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for. — Linda McMahon

Travis," Caeden's teeth groaned together. "If you know what's good for you, you'll run."
"Oh, are we playing cat and mouse?" Travis grinned, showing elongated teeth. Hair began to sprout and he started to shimmer. "I love games. I choose cat," his words were muffled around his teeth. — Micalea Smeltzer

Commander Lebedev wrote - 'After a communication session we invited Flight Engineer Savitskaya to the heavily laden table. We gave Sveta a blue floral print apron and told her, " 'Look, Sveta, even though you are a pilot and cosmonaut, you are still a woman first. Would you please do us the honor of being our hostess tonight?' "
"Ouch," says Roth — Dan Simmons

Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity. — Alexander Lebedev