Oprichnina Russia Quotes & Sayings

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. — Robert Morgan

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. — William Congreve

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy. — Erma Bombeck

The Third Reich which was born on January 30, 1933, Hitler boasted, would endure for a thousand years, — William L. Shirer

It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

Gen X wanted to succeed at this so she could tell people she did it, and little Gen Z wanted me to hand over that goddamn formula, and she was willing to scream until she got it. — Tina Fey

We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life. — Srikumar Rao

If a stranger called and interrupted you, you said with your hearty tongue, "I'm glad to see you," and said with your heartier soul, "I wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time." When — Mark Twain

[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to foresee the crisis that awaits her when she recognizes how meaningless are those male occupations for which she has fought, when the illusions and the euphoria of her conquests vanish, and when she realizes that, given the climate of dissolution, family and children can no longer give her a sense of satisfaction in life. — Julius Evola

There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name. — Leigh Brackett