Pallana Pincode Quotes & Sayings

Once in power, Stalin's campaign to succeed Lenin required a legitimate heroic career which he did not possess because of his experience in what he called 'the dirty business' of politics: this could not be told, either because it was too gangsterish for a great, paternalistic statesman or because it was too Georgian for a Russian leader. His solution was a clumsy but all-embracing cult of personality that invented, distorted and concealed the truth. Ironically this self-promotion was so grotesque that it fanned sparks, sometimes innocent ones, which flared up into colossal anti-Stalin conspiracy-theories. It was easy for his political opponents, and later for us historians, to believe that it was all invented and that he had done nothing much at all - particularly since few historians had researched in the Caucasus where so much of his early career took place. An anti-cult, as erroneous as the cult itself, grew up around these conspiracy-theories. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire. — Shia Labeouf

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule. — Alberto Juantorena

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man. — Oscar Wilde

I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women. — Susan Isaacs

I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home. — Jose Garces

God knows that you are exactly the right person who can fulfill His desires — Sunday Adelaja

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses. — Marco Rubio

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody. — Elton John

Take your sensibility and use it as a vision — George Eliot