Tsar Alexander I Quotes & Sayings

I am not President Bush. — John McCain

It's a cruel world, don't you think? — Cornelia Funke

What kind of egoism should one have? It should be such that people accept it. — Dada Bhagwan

In Russia, the person who put Sevastopol on the literary map was Leo Tolstoy, a veteran of the siege. His fictionalized memoir The Sebastopol Sketches made him a national celebrity. Already with the first installment of the work published, Tsar Alexander II saw the propaganda value of the piece and ordered it translated into French for dissemination abroad. That made the young author very happy. Compared with Tolstoy's later novels, The Sebastopol Sketches hasn't aged well, possibly because this is not a heartfelt book. As the twenty-six-year-old Tolstoy's Sevastopol diaries reveal, not heartache but ambition drove him at the time. Making a name as an author was just an alternative to two other grand plans - founding a new religion and creating a mathematical model for winning in cards (his losses during the siege were massive even for a rich person). — Constantine Pleshakov

With dreams comes responsibility. — Nick Bollettieri

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war. — Gene Tierney

Babies have the power to make grumpy people happy because they love you no matter what. Dogs are that way, too. — Mariel Hemingway

Mistakes could be improved
if, It hits on Heart — Samar Sudha

Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise. — Sarah Miller

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. — Ron Kind

Everyone is a salesman, and the product is each person. Personal branding is being conscious to the continual nature of selling yourself. — Jarod Kintz

If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever. — Katee Sackhoff

So often I sit around and think about life and wonder about every possible aspect of it. I wonder what the hell I'm doing here. — J.A. Redmerski

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success. — Rand Paul

You see, my love. As you've always said, after the rain-"
Sun."
After the darkness-"
Light."
And after the illness-"
Health."
Exactly," said the Tsar. "We mustn't give up faith. — Robert Alexander

Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life. — Jon Foreman

You will fall with me as a stone in the grave — Pablo Neruda