Top 88 Ilya Quotes
#1. As Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute says, what these cases have in common is a view by the Justice Department that "federal power is virtually unlimited: Citizens must subsume their liberty to whatever the experts in a given field determine the best or most useful policy to be.
John Fund
#2. Ilya, what do you want?" His smile vanished. When he contemplated his vision, his gaze narrowed until Tess could almost imagine it as a single beam, piercing to the heart of the universe, capable of vaporizing any object that stood in its path. "The world.
Kate Elliott
#3. Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city
Ilya Kaminsky
#4. The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.
Ilya Prigogine
#5. For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future.
Ilya Kabakov
#6. A week ago, the Water Rescue Society had held an evening there, as evidenced by the slogan hanging on the wall: THE CAUSE OF HELPING THE DROWNING IS IN THE HANDS OF THE DROWNING THEMSELVES.
Ilya Ilf
#7. 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
#8. When a man does not trust his wife's fidelity, it is entirely possible that it is because the man's own fidelity is wavering, or worse, foundered.
Ilya Atani
#9. 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
#10. The future is uncertain ... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.
Ilya Prigogine
#11. Honor your wife by fulfilling your commitment to be faithful, for she has already honored you by believing that you will.
Ilya Atani
#12. Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man's breadth, with his heart.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#13. I'm not afraid of anything - except bear. But bear in the forest.
Ilya Bryzgalov
#14. Perhaps it is as simple as Hannah's sister is marrying one of the few men in the world I call friend." His gaze strayed to where Joley stood rigid against the wall. "Or perhaps I wanted to see, one more time, whether the reason I can no longer sleep at night is worth it.
Christine Feehan
#16. The way people used to kiss before the age of historical materialism.
Ilya Ilf
#17. OK, they fire the puck from the blue line. Chief usually yelling 'block the shot' at the defensemen. They doesn't have the goalie gear, but they have to block the shot. So who is more crazy, me or the defensemen? Who is more weird?
Ilya Bryzgalov
#18. If you love her, then love the woman you see, not the woman you suppose, presume, assume, and surmise that she might have been.
Ilya Atani
#19. No one likes us, unless you count Criminal Investigations, which also doesn't like us.
Ilya Ilf
#20. 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
#21. Bryzgalov isn't just a running comedy act. He's one of the league's most thoughtful players and the fact that he offers the insight he does in his second language is something he'll never get enough credit for.
Ilya Bryzgalov
#22. The main character of any living system is openness.
Ilya Prigogine
#23. Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale systems of relevance in environmental and economic sciences
Ilya Prigogine
#24. There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?
Ilya Ilf
#25. You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#26. A pity we hadn't had time to say all the things we wanted to each other.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#27. This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America
Ilya Ilf
#28. Don't teach me how to live. I'm wicked now. I have money. But I'm magnanimous. I'll give you twenty rubles and three days to sack the city! I'm like Suvorov! Plunder the city, Kisa! Have fun!
Ilya Ilf
#29. I left with a heavy heart and a still heavier suitcase--I had filled it with my favourite books.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#30. Everyone drank to popular education and to the irrigation of Uzbekistan.
Ilya Ilf
#31. But the editor in chief was already balding and worked a lot. He was at the mercy of his family and apartment. He enjoyed lying down on the couch for a spell after dinner and reading Pravda before bed.
Ilya Ilf
#32. In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions
Ilya Prigogine
#33. The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.
Ilya Prigogine
#34. Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#35. The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger ... with the chance acquaintance.
Ilya Kabakov
#36. Let's put it to a vote. Shall the ballots be open or secret?"
"We don't need Soviet-style voting," Charushnikov said, offended. "Let's vote the honest way, the European way: secret ballots.
Ilya Ilf
#37. 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
#40. You guys just here to blame someone. You never look yourselves in the mirror, eh? You're always good. You never make the mistakes. Your articles are always perfect. In reality, what have you done for this city? If you ask yourself, what have you done besides only criticize? Not much.
Ilya Bryzgalov
#41. (1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply rooted in dynamics.
Ilya Prigogine
#42. Orgasm is indeed the climax of the deed, but does not every mountain have two slopes? You have successfully carried her to the summit of her desires, but now your duty is to gently carry her back down the other side.
Ilya Atani
#44. I think like, 'And we have some problems here on the earth we worry about? Compared to likenothing. Just be happy. Don't worry be happy right now
Ilya Bryzgalov
#45. Podkolyosin asked tragically, Why are you keeping quiet, like the League of Nations?
Ilya Ilf
#46. 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
#47. If you should attempt to maintain that film is an art in conversation with a cultured, intelligent American, he'll just plain stop talking to you.
Ilya Ilf
#49. Pushkin wrote Turkish poems and he was never in Turkey.
Ilya Ilf
#50. Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.
Ilya Kabakov
#51. But in the secret history of anger
one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.
Ilya Kaminsky
#52. I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league.
Ilya Kovalchuk
#53. Everyone was searching for something, conducting lively arguments, getting excited, but behind it all one felt weariness, disillusion, emptiness.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#54. She was, after all, a mattress owner and understood the subtleties of life.
Ilya Ilf
#55. 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
#57. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.
Ilya Kovalchuk
#58. Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#59. I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
Ilya Yashin
#61. Let your promises be few, and let them be immovable.
Ilya Atani
#62. 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
#63. Vorobyaninov, I've got a pressing artistic task for you,' he whispered. 'Go over to the exit from the first-class hallway and stand there. If somebody approaches, start singing, loudly.'
The old man was taken aback. 'But what should I sing?'
'Not "God Save the Tsar," that's for sure!
Ilya Ilf
#64. Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time," said Ostap. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody knows. We are in a terrible bind.
Ilya Ilf
#65. The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.
Ilya Prigogine
#66. Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#67. 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
#68. Good developers know how things work. Great developers know why things work.
Ilya Grigorik
#69. A Spaniard and a Pole worked in the barbershop where we got our hair cut. An Italian shined our shoes. A Croat washed our car. This was America.
Ilya Ilf
#70. 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
#71. We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate
Ilya Prigogine
#73. 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
#74. I don't care about [being a star]. The most important thing for me now is just do my job.
Ilya Kovalchuk
#75. 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
#76. Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#77. Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
Ilya Yashin
#78. When you're up on that stage and you're working the audience, all I can think about is slamming you against the wall and burying myself in you over and over, so deep they'll never get us apart.
Christine Feehan
#79. In all of your relationships, romantic or not, GIVE. Practice it. You get good at what you practice, and sometimes you even become great.
Ilya Atani
#80. California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.
Ilya Ilf
#82. He was only thirty-eight. His body was clean, well-fed, and benign. He had all his teeth. A fresh Armenian joke stirred in his head like a child in its mother's womb. He thought life was wonderful.
Ilya Ilf
#83. The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.
Ilya Prigogine
#84. Silence (in a relationship) is never your friend. Communication is the pathway to healing and growth
Ilya Atani
#85. Maybe we could make it to Stalingrad on twenty rubles. But how would we eat? Vitamins, my dear comrade marshal, don't get handed out for free.
Ilya Ilf
#86. The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language.
Ilya Prigogine
#87. I am who I am. Life is too beautiful to be sad, to be depressed. The sun comes up every day and it's beautiful.
Ilya Bryzgalov
#88. Clearly it's not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean
Ilya Ilf
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