Vassilieva Quotes & Sayings

The quality of life is more important than life itself. — Alexis Carrel

A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes. — Tony Dovale

I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than ... just eating breakfast, you know? — Sofia Vassilieva

There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offered this part, you should not tempt your fate and go to the greatest extent to be/to play this character. If you have an opportunity to do that and you do not, it's shameful. — Sofia Vassilieva

Nothing higher can be accomplished by the epic poet thus interpreting his own time in order to serve the future.
(Foreword by Frederick Ungar in Elective Affinities, 1962, Ungar Publishing) — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Swords were brought out, guns oiled and made ready, and everything was in a bustle when the old Lexington dropped her anchor on January 26, 1847, in Monterey Bay, after a voyage of one hundred and ninety-eight days from New York. Everything on shore looked bright and beautiful, the hills covered with grass and flowers, the live oaks so serene and homelike, and the low adobe houses, with red-tiled roofs and whitened walls, contrasted well with the dark pine trees behind, making a decidedly good impression upon us who had come so far to spy out the land. Nothing could be more peaceful in its looks than Monterey in January, 1847. — William T. Sherman

I don't know how long we stay that way, but we watch the sun go down together. The giant, burnt-orange sphere sinks towards the horizon, coloring the rock layers until it's gone and the canyon is covered in shadow. — Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it. — Sofia Vassilieva

My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding. — Sofia Vassilieva

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I love acting and really think that's what I want to do. It's weird seeing myself up there, but I'm used to it now. But otherwise, I have backups. Doctor, lawyer. — Sofia Vassilieva

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure. — Sofia Vassilieva

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines — Vladimir Lenin

As long as you can laugh, you are not old. — Sofia Vassilieva

The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man. — Rachel Gibson

I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents. — Manny Pacquiao

My mother is my hero. — Sofia Vassilieva

I realise that you are, like, bursting with a constant need to rub yourself up against girl flesh or whatever, but can you just try to talk about it a little less in front of me — John Green

I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different person. I met a lot of good jazz players in the army. — Mose Allison

Shaping someone's understanding of the things of God is a huge responsiblity, and it is not to be taken lightly. — Jen Wilkin

I'm an honorary ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, and I'm also associated with St. Jude's. — Sofia Vassilieva

In just a week, he'd taught her so much. That good, honorable men like him stayed the same after death. That she'd existed for too long with only hatred and revenge in her heart. Love was a much nobler cause to live for. Love didn't follow its own selfish agenda; it was willing to make sacrifices for others. How strange that it took an undead man to show her how to live. — Kerrelyn Sparks

When I first started on 'Medium,' they didn't like me growing my hair too long. But I was freaked out when the hairdresser cut off even an inch. — Sofia Vassilieva

For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I would like to learn so many things: I'd like to take tennis classes, I'd like continuing vocal lessons, and I'd definitely like taking more ice skating and more tap. — Sofia Vassilieva

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else. — Alex Turner