Nikolay Chernyshevsky Quotes

#1. The federal government began investigating allegations of fraud against the Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S. contractor accused in a bid-rigging operation involving millions of dollars. Asked to comment, a spokesperson for Halliburton said, 'Millions? With an M? That is adorable.'

Amy Poehler

#2. Cynicism formulates issues clearly, but only to dismiss them.

Mason Cooley

#3. Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#4. All right," Clara said. "We have our swordsman, so let's get moving. Brigan, could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

Kristin Cashore

#5. The capability of negotiating ... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Madeleine Albright

#6. Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

#7. I hadn't even realized how desperately I'd wanted love.

Nina Lane

#8. History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

#9. You cannot fly into your own arms.

Elizabeth McCracken

#10. of the purely sensuous instinct of boyhood had been transformed by the workings of the imagination, changed into something that seemed to the lad himself to be remote from sense, and was for that

Oscar Wilde

#11. Individually, human beings are all dolts.

Orson Scott Card

#12. Steak swallowers zonked on Television!

Allen Ginsberg

#13. The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.

John C. Maxwell