Gaito Gazdanov Quotes

#1. I knew by experience and by observing many of my friends the baneful, destructive effect which participation in a war has on almost every man.
(from 'The Specter of Alexander Wolf')

Gaito Gazdanov

#2. I'm involved in too many things. I have a Web site I'm working on.

Charles Manson

#3. Your gift for thinking interferes with you: without it, of course, you'd be happy.

Gaito Gazdanov

#4. They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

Clare Boothe Luce

#5. Certain product lines are more suited to be manufactured in proximity with the customer, while others are more suitable to be manufactured in India.

Azim Premji

#6. Among all my recollections, among all the numberless sensations of my life, the memory of the lone murder I had committed weighed heaviest on my mind.
(from 'The Specter of Alexander Wolf')

Gaito Gazdanov

#7. Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

Allen Ginsberg

#8. And only now am I beginning to think that perhaps not all is lost.

Gaito Gazdanov

#9. When I wake up every morning, I think to myself, Today my life will begin in earnest.

Gaito Gazdanov

#10. The justice of any single commandment cannot be proven logically in an irrefutable manner, and there is no moral law which is binding under all conditions without exception. Ethics, generally, exist only as far as we are willing to accept them.
(from 'The Specter of Alexander Wolf')

Gaito Gazdanov

#11. POSTNot a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up above a cloud that passes by No one goes in And the night keeps its secret

Pierre Reverdy

#12. Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

Narendra Modi

#13. We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

Saint Ignatius

#14. I need you to be my foil!" she wailed. "I need someone to disagree with him, so I can agree with him and support him like a good wife should! Please, Evelyn! I cannot become a ruined spinster!

Tarun Shanker

#15. free life" as described by a mountaineer: "The mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as breath.

Peter Matthiessen

#16. Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.

David Cameron