Oprichnina Quotes

#1. The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.

Vladimir Sorokin

#2. Still, when Fern fell asleep on Preston's shoulder during the reenactment of Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre, Sam almost lost his lunch, even though they hadn't had lunch yet.

Jennifer Anne Kogler

#3. I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.

Fidel Castro

#4. Chloe handed a pink envelope to Madeline. "Can you keep this, Mummy? It's an invitation to Amabella's party. You have to come dressed as something starting with A. I'm going to dress up as a princess." She ran off.

Liane Moriarty

#5. Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

Saint Augustine

#6. A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

Richard Hell

#7. Hunter let go of JJ who started dusting his jacket with both hands. 'Look at what you've done to my suit man, these things don't come cheap you know.'

Garcia checked his pocket change. 'Here.' He extended his hand towards JJ. 'A dollar ninety-five. Go buy another one.

Chris Carter

#8. I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.

Steven Millhauser

#9. Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself.

Allan Lokos

#10. With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols of things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

#11. And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

Lynn Swann

#12. God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. You'll never appreciate something you're given as much as something you've earned.

Laurel Ulen Curtis