Petrograd City Quotes

#1. Some see in our rancorous politics a surfeit of moral conviction: too many people believe too deeply, too stridently, in their own convictions and want to impose them on everyone else.

Michael J. Sandel

#2. Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.

Roger Housden

#3. In a city by the sea which was once called St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, then Leningrad, then, much later, St. Petersburg again, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street. By a long, thin window, a child in a pale blue dress and pale green slippers waited for a bird to marry her.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. As late as 1820, families made three quarters of all goods - food, clothing, tools - for their own use.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#5. The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.

Paul Bettany

#6. Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. growing older is all about learning and passing it on, otherwise there is no reason for biological evolution to keep us alive after our reproductive years are over.

Twinkle Khanna

#8. We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

Teresa Of Avila

#9. Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

Michael Chabon

#10. The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#11. Pride often led men to foolish ends.

Alex Westmore

#12. To keep false hopes is to prolong misery.

Amy Tan