Mariinsky Theatre Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous. — Mitch Daniels

Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn. — Edmund Burke

Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field, You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius! Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex: We cannot fight for love, as men ay do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. I'll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well. — William Shakespeare

Statistics are the heart of democracy. — Simeon Strunsky

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. — Manuel Puig

At its most basic level, behind the grand poetry and superb characterizations, Shakespeare shows Macbeth succumbing to the temptation of pride, the same sin as Adam. Both wanted to live without God, to lead their own lives, follow their own paths, and ignore any limits on their freedom imposed by God's strictures. — William Shakespeare

Man's primary will to know struggles against the selfsatisfied formalism of empty learning which drugs man into
the illusory calm of fulfillment. It fights against empty intellectualism,
against nihilism which has ceased wanting anything and thus has ceased wanting to know. It battles against mediocrity which never takes stock of itself and which confuses knowledge with the mere learning of facts and <> The only satisfaction which man derives from a radical commitment to knowledge is the hope of advancing the frontier of knowledge to a point beyond which he cannot advance except by transcending knowledge itself. — Karl Jaspers

The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good. — Charles Bukowski

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws. — Robert Dallek

Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics ... The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group. — Emile Durkheim