Nekrasov Russian Quotes & Sayings

Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances. — Sun Tzu

It is the rarest thing ... that gets preserved, that does not get erased, broken down, transformed. — Anthony Doerr

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself. — Lamar Odom

As Aristotle put it, the beginning of philosophy is wonder. I am simply amazed to find myself living on a ball of rock that swings around an immense spherical fire. I am more amazed that I am a maze - a complex wiggliness, an arabesque of tubes, filaments, cells, fibers, and films that are various kinds of palpitation in this stream of liquid energy. — Alan W. Watts

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work. — John Brunner

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same. — Will Cuppy

A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent. — Paulo Coelho

It is time to stop standing at the edges of rooms. Hugging the walls. Living in my head. Wishing I had something to say. — Shonda Rhimes

But tired as I was, I couldn't sleep. I thought of Alice, and then of Rufus, and I realized that Rufus had done exactly what I had said he would do: Gotten possession of the woman without having to bother with her husband. Now, somehow, Alice would have to accept not only the loss of her husband, but her own enslavement. Rufus had caused her trouble, and now he had been rewarded for it. It made no sense. No matter how kindly he treated her now that he had destroyed her, it made no sense. I — Octavia E. Butler

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. — Vernon Howard

I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them. — Travis Barker

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. — Elie Wiesel

I think there has been a lack of full cooperation from too many people in the Muslim community. — Peter T. King

I mean, sure this guy is a little nuts. You have to spend your whole life following bears around. But I get it, too. When he was with the bears, they didn't care that he was kind of weird, or that he'd gotten trouble for drinking too much and using drugs. They didn't ask him a bunch of stupid questions about how he felt, or why he did what he did. They just let them be who he was. — Michael Thomas Ford

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. — David Maraniss