Lubyanka Quotes & Sayings

A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination. — Pearl Zhu

The home is the basis of a righteous life and no other instrumentality can take its place nor fulfill its essential functions. — David O. McKay

The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror. — E. M. Forster

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we're entering the Age of the Ass. — Jean-Luc Godard

I know when you say a lie... and now I bet 200$ that you lie. — Deyth Banger

The necessity for co-operation between Europe and the United States is bigger than ever. Only by close transatlantic co-operation can we face the world's challenges. — Jan Peter Balkenende

I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage. — Andy Summers

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. — Judy Garland

Someone has said that people live their lives crucified between two thieves - the regrets of yesterday and the anxieties of tomorrow. — Erwin W. Lutzer

I can't fight this feeling any longer
And yet I'm still afraid to let it flow
What started out as friendship, has grown stronger
I only wish I had the strength to let it show I tell myself that I can't hold out forever
I said there is no reason for my fear
Cause I feel so secure when we're together
You give my life direction
You make everything so clear
— Journey

I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman. — Renata Tebaldi

Those who first acquired language and tried to think the human situation were utterly overwhelmed. They could cope only by imagining that there were greater invisible beings who could and did understand and control both the human psyche and the world. 'I can't make sense of it, but I have to believe that there is a larger perspective within which it all makes sense. — Don Cupitt

Knowing your self-worth isn't something others can validate. You either believe it or you don't. — Richard Paul Evans

Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost like a drug. Need like a wolf paces the perimeter of your world, back and forth, back and forth, never letting up ... You're appalled by the new appetites within you, kicking their feet and clawing to get out. — Nikki Gemmell

And so in Moscow they began a systematic search, block by block. Someone had to be arrested everywhere. The slogan was: "We are going to bang our fist on the table so hard that the world will shake with terror!" It was to the Lubyanka, to the Butyrki, that the Black Marias, the passenger cars, the enclosed trucks, the open hansom cabs kept moving, even by day. There was a jam at the gates, a jam in the courtyard. They didn't have time to unload and register those they'd arrested. (And the same situation existed — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

This is a man who has shown a complete disregard for human life, cynicism and hypocrisy, and a willingness to use war and the deaths of thousands of Russian soldiers and innocent civilians as a PR instrument in his election campaign. This is a man who raised a toast on the anniversary of Stalin's birth, had the plaque commemorating former KGB head Yury Andropov restored to its place on the wall of the Lubyanka - Federal Security Service headquarters - and dreams of seeing the statue of butcher Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet secret police, stand once again in the center of Moscow. — Garry Kasparov