Nikitin Russian Quotes & Sayings

Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain. — Svetlana Alliluyeva

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything. — Markus Zusak

All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog. — Steve Winwood

Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment ... — Primo Levi

When we use words like biophotonic matrix, we rarely consider a word can be a reality in itself... — Anita B. Sulser PhD

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo

Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value. — Joseph Brant

For just as the virtue of wealth will bring out the evil of avarice, so will the evil of poverty bring out the virtue of self-respect. In this world, there is as much good that comes out of evil as ever stands by itself alone. This, in fact, is the need of evil, that out of it may lift the good. — Ernest Temple Thurston

I don't like labels being put on anyone. I judge the person on how they interact with me. If you're good to me, I'll be good to you. It's just that simple. A persons sexual preference doesn't come before me. To me that's personal and private. In short, people need to mind their own business. My philosophy is live and let live. — Rayven Skyy

If something doesn't work, you have to admit it. Always try to find what's going right and what's going wrong with your music. If you can, pool your resources and record yourself; do that frequently. — Steve Forbert

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise. — Alexander Pope

When a mortal dreams, all kinds of strange things can happen. When a wizard dreams, it can be even weirder. Sometimes, dreams can be intense enough to create a little, temporary world of their own. — Jim Butcher