Ehrenburg Quotes

#1. More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg ... Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of the history of Russia in Stalin's time and of her relations with the West.

Robert C. Tucker

#2. I can't listen to music often. It plays on my nerves; it makes me want to say silly, tender things and stroke the heads of people who, living in a dirty hell, can yet create such beauty.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#3. travelling to dance schools to perform in their

Kristina Rhianoff

#4. We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#5. But in writing, I feel good - no, not just good, but full. Right, somehow. It's a feeling I haven't experienced in a long, long time, and it's this more than anything that convinces me...

Gayle Forman

#6. The epithet "monolithic" is often used as a term of praise in this country; but a monolith is a mass of stone. Human beings are far more complex.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#7. Wars never die, I said. They just go to sleep.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#8. Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man's breadth, with his heart.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#9. So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

Warren Buffett

#10. If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

Donald Miller

#11. People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#12. They say that sometimes a man cannot recognize himself in a looking-glass. It is even harder to recognize oneself in the clouded mirror of the past.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#13. You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#14. Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#15. Once, I loved. I stumbled here and there, but I loved well. It was definitive, remarkable. My compass.

Cat Porter

#16. I left with a heavy heart and a still heavier suitcase--I had filled it with my favourite books.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#17. A pity we hadn't had time to say all the things we wanted to each other.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#18. Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

Horace

#19. It is difficult to uproot fully grown plants; they become diseased and often perish. In Russia now they practise winter transplanting: a tree is dug up while it is in a dormant condition. In spring it comes back to life in a new place. A good method, especially as a tree has no memory.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#20. There are certain things that you can do, or learn to do, that can make you extraordinarily valuable to yourself and to others. Your job is to identify your special areas of uniqueness and then to commit yourself to becoming very, very good in those areas. Increase

Brian Tracy

#21. Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!

Ilya Ehrenburg

#22. Will you stop calling it 'stalking'? That's such a harsh term. I prefer 'anonymous following.

Tara Sivec

#23. Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#24. Well, of course, people are only human ... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#25. Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

Derek Bok

#26. There is no progress in art.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#27. Everyone was searching for something, conducting lively arguments, getting excited, but behind it all one felt weariness, disillusion, emptiness.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#28. Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#29. It's as much a writer's concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#30. Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#31. Today, far continents have become suburbs. Even the moon has somehow come closer. But for all that, the past has not lost its power, and if within a lifetime a man changes his skin an infinite number of times--almost as often as his suits--still he does not change his heart: he has but one.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#32. Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#33. Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

Ilya Ehrenburg