Samoylov Vladimir Quotes & Sayings

Even death is a power, a capacity. It is not a simple event that will happen to me, an objective and observable fact; here my power to be will cease, here I will no longer be able to be here. But death, insofar as it belongs to me and belongs to me alone, since no one can die my death in my stead or in my place, makes of this non-possibility, this impending future of mine, this relation to myself always open until my end, yet another power. Dying, I can still die, this is our sign as man. — Maurice Blanchot

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change. — Michael Eric Dyson

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it. — Philip K. Dick

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part ... he was the part! The real life Godfather. — Victoria Gotti

If princes and kings could follow it (Tao), all things would by themselves abide, Heaven and Earth would unite and sweet dew would fall. People would by themselves find harmony, without being commanded. — Laozi

You dirty rat... — James Cagney

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough
or I misunderstood what strength was. — Claire Messud

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. — Marya Mannes

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. — Winston Churchill

Let the night come. We are not afraid. — Poppy Z. Brite

That's the laugh," he murmured, but she was already setting off down the quay, her feet barely touching the ground. — Leigh Bardugo