Tukhachevsky Execution Quotes & Sayings

The award for the craziest story I ever heard goes to an old woman in Chicago who told me that her cat was planning to assassinate the president. — Adam J. Wright

Let your promises be few, and let them be immovable. — Ilya Atani

It's just so beautiful," said Lyra, miming wiping a tear from the corner of her eye. "Our little Valerie's learning how to play nicely with the other children." "I will kill you all in your sleep," I said. Lyra was still laughing when the town car arrived. — Seanan McGuire

He pauses for only a fraction of a second. Then he leans forward and presses his lips to mine, and the whole world powers off, the moon and the rain and the sky and the streets, and it's just the two of us in the dark, alive, alive, alive. — Lauren Oliver

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning. — Reinhold Niebuhr

That we need to ask for forgiveness even when we believe we've done nothing wrong." She paused, as if wondering whether she should continue. "And to forgive ourselves. That's usually the hardest kind of forgiveness. — Karen White

The fashion industry is completely different from the acting industry, but definitely the same as well, because there's cattiness and competition just like in the modeling world. — Sara Paxton

Ships are to little purpose without skillful Sea Men. — Richard Hakluyt

God," she groans. "Shut up and eat your damn burger." I eat it. I eat the entire thing with a shit-eating grin. — Colleen Hoover

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do? — Brian Eno

Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper. — Annie Dillard

The camera slung around his neck ... was the only complicated thing he wore. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Addiction is a bargain with the cosmos: only stay time, and I'll remain in this holding pattern, too. The uncrossable gap between now and the past is given tangible form and conquered, daily, in the real but bridgeable gap between what I need and what I can get. Addiction creates a god so that time will stop
why all gods are created. God might be another story. — Ann Marlowe

People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it. — Grover Norquist

He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love. — Henry Rollins