Vinogradov Russian Quotes & Sayings

How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations. — John Green

To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part. — Tamar Myers

There is no normal. There's only what's right for you and being honest. — Jael McHenry

We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women? — Estelle Freedman

She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear to her yet. — Gregory Maguire

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering. — Jack Kevorkian

WHERE IS MY SON?" Uncle Antonio bellows, levelling the two AK-47s he's holding at the lot of us. "Get away from him, you bastards! — Jessica Khoury

I cleaned my gun every day, and it was now paying off. The whole time my platoon sergeant made sure I stayed on target and helped direct me. I recall the sensation of him grabbing my leg to get my attention and pointing towards more targets. I remember walking my tracers into a bad guy's gun, as he was doing the same to me, the rounds were so close I could feel the heat of the bullets on my neck, but I got him first. Some of the guys who saw it thought I was hit and were grabbing me trying to dress my non-existent wounds when we made it out of the kill zone. I also recall shooting a structure down along with the men inside it not more than 20 feet from me. The close proximity of their muzzle flashes startled me. — Marty Skovlund Jr.

Sean's our boy, big into computer games and football, wants to help the Redskins build a dynasty, though he doesn't really know what that means. — Catherine Coulter

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority. — Nicolas Chamfort

After nearly 6,000 years of evidence on the subject, one thing stands clear: the people who end up as leaders in any organization, large or small, are often the craziest guys around. — Stanley Bing

...you have to ask yourself two questions: Who am I? And how may I become myself? — Paul Beatty

Still women- women. They do themselves more credit, there's more reality in women. They live closer to their nature. They have to. It's more with them. They have the breasts. They see their blood, and it does them good, while men are led to be vainer. — Saul Bellow