Lebedev Quotes

#1. Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh ... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one.

Anton Chekhov

#2. Lebedev: ... There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life.

Anton Chekhov

#3. Kosykh: What the hell ... is there really no one even to talk to? We might as well be living in Australia: no common interests, no solidarity ... Everyone lives separate lives ... But I must go ... it's time. [Takes his cap.] Time is precious. [Gives Lebedev his hand.] I pass!

Anton Chekhov

#4. It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

Alexander Lebedev

#5. When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!"

Rodney Dangerfield

#6. Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

Peter S. Beagle

#7. Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood like itself.

Margery Wilson

#8. Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.

Alexander Lebedev

#9. Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.

Alexander Lebedev

#10. Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can't give in to extortion.

Alexander Lebedev

#11. I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

Alexander Lebedev

#12. The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.

Elton Trueblood

#13. Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

Alexander Lebedev

#14. Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab to to get ahead...and to think, all they have to do is READ!

Fortune Magazine

#15. It seems to be in fashion among Russian politicians to blame Berezovsky for everything. Soon they'll be holding him responsible for global warming, earthquakes and tsunamis.

Alexander Lebedev

#16. I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

Alexander Lebedev

#17. The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.

Marianne Williamson

#18. I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee' ... I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

Robert Rauschenberg

#19. I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.

Alexander Lebedev

#20. Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas A. Edison

#21. I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

Alexander Lebedev

#22. The exceeding brightness of this early sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

Wallace Stevens

#23. But guilt isn't smart. It isn't logical. It doesn't only live in the places it belongs.

Ally Carter