Ossetian Quotes & Sayings

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich. — Bob Geldof

The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all. — John Maynard Keynes

Will these books be comedies or tragedies?"
"Both. Just like life. — Tiffany Reisz

When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them. — Eliphas Levi

We live without feeling the country beneath our feet,
our words are inaudible from ten steps away.
Any conversation, however brief,
gravitates, gratingly, toward the Kremlin's mountain man.
His greasy fingers are thick as worms,
his words weighty hammers slamming their target.
His cockroach moustache seems to snicker,
and the shafts of his high-topped boots gleam.
Amid a rabble of scrawny-necked chieftains,
he toys with the favors of such homunculi.
One hisses, the other mewls, one groans, the other weeps;
he prowls thunderously among them, showering them with scorn.
Forging decree after decree, like horseshoes,
he pitches one to the belly, another to the forehead,
a third to the eyebrow, a fourth in the eye.
Every execution is a carnival
that fills his broad Ossetian chest with delight. — Osip Mandelstam

The worst thing you can do in a relationship, and what's really unattractive about it, is that people begin to limit each other. — Jamie Johnson

Don't Trust Blindly
If in shark infested waters, don't assume the fin coming toward you is a dolphin. — Mary Russel

I cannot recall an instance of anything very dreadful happening at half-past one — Susanna Clarke

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant. — Rodney Dangerfield

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result. — Gisela Richter

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

the butterflies that had just hatched hurried into the light to find love as — Henri Charriere

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy. — Mikheil Saakashvili