Top 84 Leonid'd Quotes
#1. I knew there was a reason I didnt turn you into a banana slug."
Leonid'd eyes widened. "No banana slug! Please!"
"It was a compliement, silly. Forbidden is good! Sadie likes forbidden!
Rick Riordan
#2. I had the belief that many troubles you could observe on the European continent were due to politicians not understanding economic phenomena. Even if they had good intentions, they didn't have the skills to solve problems.
Leonid Hurwicz
#3. The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
Robin Williams
#4. Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.
Leonid Andreyev
#5. Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.
Leonid Andreyev
#6. The true messianism of the Russian Church is not what the Slavophiles have imagined, but it is the example of suffering. It is in this way that she shows that she is the continuation of Christ in this world.
Leonid Feodorov
#7. True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.
Leonid Afremov
#8. A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk.
Leonid Shamkovich
#9. Ah well, 'tis the way of the world
births and deaths, births and deaths.
Leonid Andreyev
#10. One of the poets says somewhere that animals are a different people. I killed them by the ten, by the hundred, thousand, not even knowing what they were called. I destroyed their houses, their secrets. And buried them. Buried them. Leonid
Svetlana Alexievich
#11. Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy.
Leonid Brezhnev
#12. Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.
Leonid Andreyev
#13. It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.
Leonid Brezhnev
#14. What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.
Leonid Andreyev
#16. A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.
Leonid Hurwicz
#17. Do you not see the hand of God, which gives harmony, light, and love to the world? Do not the mountains, in the blue cloud of incense, sing their hymn of glory?
Leonid Andreyev
#18. Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.
Helmut Schmidt
#19. I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.
Leonid Feodorov
#21. I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.
Walter Mosley
#22. Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.
Leonid Shamkovich
#23. That would be like me tellin' a gosling not to migrate down south his first mature season. You got to go. Got to. There's gonna be snakes and foxes, and in your case, [ ... ], there might even be men with guns.
Walter Mosley
#24. Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.
Leonid Brezhnev
#26. We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe.
Leonid Brezhnev
#27. I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.
Walter Mosley
#29. Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.
Leonid Andreyev
#30. Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.
Leonid Andreyev
#31. Bread without love is like grass without salt
the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Leonid Andreyev
#32. I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.
Tariq Ali
#35. There are two kinds of games in economics. One is the game where people use only legal moves. Then there is the true game, the one like real life, where the strategies and moves people make, some of them contain illegal gains.
Leonid Hurwicz
#36. When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!
Leonid Andreyev
#37. The moon was so young, so strange, even as a young girl who is dreaming and is afraid to tell her dreams; and it was shining only for itself.
Leonid Andreyev
#38. There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.
Walter Mosley
#39. To succeed in life one needs two things
influence and a lucky star.
Leonid Andreyev
#40. The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers!
Leonid Shamkovich
#41. I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.
Leonid Afremov
#42. It's a powerful instrument, dynamite
nothing like it for a convincing argument!
Leonid Andreyev
#43. Soviet people are better off materially and richer spiritually.
Leonid Brezhnev
#44. Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
Leonid I. Brezhnev
#46. We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs ... (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand ...
Leonid Brezhnev
#48. I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.
Leonid Brezhnev
#49. Our militant union with peoples which still have to carry on an armed struggle against the colonialists constitutes an important element of our line in international affairs.
Leonid Brezhnev
#51. As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to participate actively in the work of our press.
Leonid Brezhnev
#52. The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.
Leonid Brezhnev
#54. A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.
Leonid Hurwicz
#55. The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.
Leonid Andreyev
#56. Believe me, after the destruction of Chinese nuclear sites by our missiles, there won't be much time for the Americans to choose between the defense of their Chinese allies and peaceful co-existence with us.
Leonid Brezhnev
#57. We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.
Leonid Brezhnev
#58. Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country ... the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late.
Leonid Brezhnev
#59. The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.
Walter Mosley
#60. My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
Leonid Hurwicz
#61. In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.
Leonid Shamkovich
#62. The papers are full of murders
strange murders. It is all nonsense that there are as many brains as there are men; mankind has only one intellect, and it is beginning to get muddled.
Leonid Andreyev
#63. Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.
Leonid Andreyev
#65. In Morocco, he was back in his element, a shark moving through deep and dangerous waters. But for thousands of years sharks have been bred to survive dark and dangerous waters. So too, Leonid Arkadin.
Eric Van Lustbader
#66. Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.
Leonid Brezhnev
#67. When you talk about the economic process of a society, sometimes we separate it into two stories. One is about monetary variables. But then, we very often assume the underlying arrangement, the other variable, is 'perfect competition,' which means people do whatever they are supposed to do.
Leonid Hurwicz
#68. When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.
Leonid Brezhnev
#69. The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.
Leonid Brezhnev
#70. HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
Walter Mosley
#71. The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon.
Leonid Shamkovich
#72. Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.
Leonid Brezhnev
#73. We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.
Leonid Brezhnev
#74. One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you', I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.
Leonid I. Brezhnev
#75. I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist
Leonid Afremov
#76. The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.
Leonid Andreyev
#77. Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.
Leonid Andreyev
#78. Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.
Leonid Hurwicz
#79. Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.
Leonid Andreyev
#80. Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.
Leonid Andreyev
#81. Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.
Helmut Schmidt
#82. Classical mechanics gave us a deterministic view of the world. Quantum mechanics, conversely, gives us a probabilistic view instead. According to Newton, if you know the cause af an event, you can predict the outcome. According to M.Born, you can only predict how likely that outcome will be.
Leonid V. Azaroff
#83. Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.
Leonid Shamkovich
#84. Just because there are people who violate rules, behave illegally and so on, it does not mean that everybody is like that. On the contrary, if you watch certain judges, you observe that they honestly try to implement what they believe the Constitution says and just put it into effect.
Leonid Hurwicz
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