Top 100 Boris Quotes
#1. My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.
Boris Johnson
#2. the cow crossly shook her head and craned her neck, mooing plaintively, and beyond the black barns of Meliuzeievo the stars twinkled, and invisible threads of sympathy stretched between them and the cow as if there were cattle sheds in other worlds where she was pitied. Everything
Boris Pasternak
#3. We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.
Boris Yeltsin
#4. Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.
Christopher Lee
#6. The Remain campaign ... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.
Boris Johnson
#7. There is nothing to fear. There is no such thing as death. Death has nothing to do with us. But you said something about being talented
that it makes one different. Now, that does have something to do with us. And talent in the highest and broadest sense means talent for life.
Boris Pasternak
#8. Aren't we sensitive! We're something special. We're cultured. It's too much for us.
Boris Pasternak
#9. The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
Boris Johnson
#10. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak
#11. It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.
Boris Johnson
#12. Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.
Boris Yeltsin
#13. Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?
Boris Becker
#14. In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
Boris Pasternak
#15. When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
Boris Johnson
#16. Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.
Boris Vian
#17. London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
Boris Johnson
#18. Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.
Jurgen Klopp
#19. This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
Boris Johnson
#21. If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.
Boris Beizer
#22. We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.
Boris Yeltsin
#23. For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
Boris Spassky
#24. When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career.
Boris Gelfand
#25. I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
Boris Johnson
#26. I'm the same person. I don't put on a face. I'm the same guy every time you see me.
Boris Kodjoe
#27. Don't let my soul be riddled / by deceit: kill it or, / like fog, it will seep through / a heap of white chaff.
Boris Pasternak
#28. In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
Boris Pasternak
#29. (Boris Pasternak described this phenomenon beautifully, when he wrote, "No genuine book has a first page.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#30. If you go near her or touch her with your finger, a spark will light up the room and either kill you on the spot or electrify you for your whole life with a magnetically attractive, plaintive craving and sorrow.
Boris Pasternak
#31. I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.
Boris Yeltsin
#32. No one ever is "nothing". We all have presence even if it's a slight one.
Boris Zubry
#33. Dr. S. talked to me about magical thinking. She was right. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others. She did not say that writing to Boris was a bad idea, but then she never judged anything. That was her magic. [p. 85]
Siri Hustvedt
#34. Our children are flowers but only for us. Nevertheless, smell of these flowers goes to everyone.
Boris Zubry
#35. I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.
Boris Kodjoe
#36. Have you ever heard of the law of large numbers? If you carry on betting large sums day after day, then sooner or later you are bound to win everything back. As far
Boris Akunin
#37. I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, "Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there's more things than tennis." That's what happened.
Boris Kodjoe
#38. The sky, drunk with spring and giddy with its fumes, thickened with clouds. Low clouds, drooping at the edges like felt sailed over the woods and rain leapt from them, warm, smelling of soil and sweat, and washing the last of the black armor-plating of ice from the earth.
Boris Pasternak
#39. Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
Boris Pasternak
#40. On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.
Boris Spassky
#41. All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
Boris Johnson
#43. Yakov Mikhailovich, as we have already said, believed fervently in the power of the human intellect. There are no insoluble problems, only incompetent problem solvers.
Boris Akunin
#44. Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.
Boris Sidis
#45. I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.
Boris Becker
#46. Mitrofanii frowned - he found women's tears hard to bear, especially if they were not shed out of self-indulgence but for some substantial reason, as now.
Boris Akunin
#47. They kissed slowly, the human traffic of First Avenue taking them into its indifferent arms, the city's special combination of curiosity and resentment.
Boris Fishman
#48. I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
Boris Johnson
#49. It would be a long, long time before I heard anything from Boris again.
Donna Tartt
#50. The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
Boris Pasternak
#51. Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
Boris Becker
#52. The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
Boris Johnson
#53. The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
Boris Johnson
#54. When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.
Boris Johnson
#55. I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
Boris Pasternak
#56. And sharp-faced, like Boris, but with an evil red-rimmed gaze and tiny, brownish sawteeth. He made me think of a rabid fox.
Donna Tartt
#57. I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
Boris Spassky
#58. One could not forget what one had never known.
Boris Zubry
#59. Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
Boris Yeltsin
#60. Which brings me to you, Prince Boris. And I'm sorry, but here's the thing ... I think you're one of the nicest Russian aristocrats I've ever met and not been forced into an arranged marriage with,' [said the Doctor]
James Goss
#61. I read somewhere that it's called American roulette. It was invented in America, in the goldfields. You put a single shot in the cylinder, give it a twirl, and then - bang! If you're lucky you break the bank; if not, then it's good-bye
Boris Akunin
#62. I pay my teachers very well, because pedagogy is the most important of all the sciences,
Boris Akunin
#63. If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!
Boris Becker
#64. Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
Boris Kodjoe
#65. The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
Boris Johnson
#66. I do think human beings cannot be faulted for wishing to judge themselves and their lives and their achievements by others around them; that is a natural human feeling.
Boris Johnson
#67. Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false theories. Forward steps in art are governed by the law of attraction, are the result of imitation of and admiration for beloved predecessors.
Boris Pasternak
#68. Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Boris Pasternak
#69. I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
Boris Johnson
#70. I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.
Boris Johnson
#71. No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.
Boris Pasternak
#72. You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that.
Boris Kodjoe
#73. Zero is only one less then one but what a difference.
Boris Zubry
#74. Is not happening yet," contributes Boris. "Singularity implies infinite rate of change achieved momentarily. Future not amenable thereafter to prediction by presingularity beings, right? So has not happened.
Charles Stross
#75. She was obsessed with the idea of breaking with everything she had ever known or experienced, and starting on something new.
Boris Pasternak
#76. The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
Boris Sidis
#77. I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much
Boris Johnson
#78. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself ...
Boris Pasternak
#79. I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.
Boris Johnson
#80. Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.
Boris Yeltsin
#81. I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.
Boris Johnson
#82. Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.
Ernst Boris Chain
#83. Rome was a flea market of borrowed gods and conquered peoples, a bargain basement on two floors, earth and heaven, a mass of filth convoluted in a triple not as in an intestinal obstruction
Boris Pasternak
#84. Regent, Boris Godonof, riveted the chains of slavery upon the wrists of many millions of human beings in Russia.
Emilia Pardo Bazan
#85. I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
Boris Johnson
#86. And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.
Boris Pasternak
#87. Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.
Boris Spassky
#88. This is my country. The Russian people are in bit of trouble. Russian court doesn't work. Russian education decline every year. I believe that Russia has a chance to be free. Has a chance. It's difficult, but we must do it.
Boris Nemtsov
#89. The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
Boris Pasternak
#90. The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.
Boris Kodjoe
#91. Who does more for a nation
the one who makes a fuss about it or the one who, without thinking of it, raises it to universality by the beauty of his actions, and gives it fame and immortality?
Boris Pasternak
#92. ("It is a blessing to die in the natural order." - Sofia Gelman.)
Boris Fishman
#93. When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.
Boris Kodjoe
#94. It's a tremendous honor to be asked to carry a show.
Boris Kodjoe
#95. In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
Boris Spassky
#96. I was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major.
Boris Kodjoe
#97. The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The movie is like an arrested adolescent's Google search run amok.
Richard Corliss
#98. Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.
Boris Yeltsin
#99. Now [Mike] Gove has destroyed Boris Johnson.
James Kirkup
#100. I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.
Boris Trajkovski
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