Brezhnev Era Quotes

#1. When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.

Daniel Hannan

#2. In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

Willa Cather

#3. She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.

Clive Cussler

#4. Shop for what we wanted, then hunt for garments with blue tags, removing them with the staple remover and restapling the tags to our garments. Sickening,

Janet Mock

#5. England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

Katherine Mansfield

#6. When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected.

Luc De Clapiers

#7. Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

Jim Fowler

#8. If he's just not into you anymore, then buy yourself a cute pair of shoes and strut your fabulousness elsewhere.

Jody Gehrman

#9. I'm minding my own business, sir! How many people do you think actually do that by choice? Does it bother you? Of course it bothers you. A clear conscience is always supposed to bother a cripple-minded idiot like you

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction?

Rhian J. Martin