Lyudmila Quotes

#1. He had understood long ago that the past was no better than the present. That was as plain as day. One had to try to escape, to wrestle free from every era, so as not to be devoured by it.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#2. Judgment is not always required. You don't need to have an opinion on every issue.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#3. Maybe it was true that only beauty would save the world, or truth, or some other high-flown garbage; but fear was still more powerful than anything else. Fear destroyed everything: everything born of beauty, the tender shoots of all that was fine, wise, eternal...

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#4. Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#5. I hate it when people are wrongly convicted.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

#6. In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

#7. The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Denis Waitley

#8. I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#9. If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.

Ben Horowitz

#10. Dr. Spiro seems to think I don't know how to behave in a mental institution.

Louise Wareham

#11. It is hot, the light is strong and I have an extraordinary sense of clarity, although quite what is clear I cannot express.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#12. ... we live in a society of larvae--immature human beings, adolescents disguised as adults.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#13. You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.

Ray Harryhausen

#14. I recognize that what you believe doesn't matter in the slightest. All that matters is how you personally behave.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#15. There is no escaping life. It takes what is it's due.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#16. In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. Go, go, magic clover.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

#19. One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.

Nelson Mandela

#20. Looking at Rita, I have long found social injustice preferable to the struggle against it.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#21. For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

Alice Munro