Tikhonov Quotes & Sayings

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons
throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to. — Carson McCullers

I don't want to be considered a hero ... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary. — Miep Gies

As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body. — Ramakrishna

I'm okay with having bad dance moves. — Katy Perry

Both the American and the European approaches to foreign policy were the products of their own unique circumstances. Americans inhabited a nearly empty continent shielded from predatory powers by two vast oceans and with weak countries as neighbors. Since America confronted no power in need of being balanced, it could hardly have occupied itself with the challenges of equilibrium even if its leaders had been seized by the bizarre notion of replicating European conditions amidst a people who had turned their backs on Europe. — Henry Kissinger

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it. — Charles Bukowski

I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact - that we are the world and the world is us. The world is each one of us; to feel that, to be really committed to it and to nothing else, brings about a feeling of great responsibility and an action that must not be fragmentary, but whole. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner — Miguel Ruiz

Drunk on research, exhilarated by arcane details — Sheridan Hay

Remember, #GIRLBOSS: It's not cool to get drunk on your own success. — Sophia Amoruso

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! — Brian Lumley

Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY. — Anuj

Genius implies originality and independence. — Claudia Gray

A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it ... a cheese-trap. — Joe Abercrombie