Potemkin Quotes

#1. Potemkin suffered bitterly from having nothing left to want. For when dreams turn into reality, there is an empty spot where the dreams used to be, and Potemkin had no dreams left.

Eleanor Herman

#2. Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village.

Dean Cavanagh

#3. Potemkin only deceived his empress;
how much more despicable to deceive oneself.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#4. The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

Adolf Loos

#5. I will build the best Potemkin village for you, my love!

Ljupka Cvetanova

#6. Young Stalin Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#7. The rise of Donald Trump is what happens when you build Potemkin villages in Weimar republics.

Dean Cavanagh

#8. Were uproariously demanding relief from their intolerable miseries - in this Potemkin sideshow there prevailed a preposterous and mendacious comfort.

Stefan Zweig

#9. We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa's sleigh, not been ripped from the earth. The illusion enables us to imagine that the only choices we have are between brands.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#10. It was not the lover she regretted,' wrote a Swiss imperial tutor, who understood their relationship. 'It was the friend.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#11. You have to have confidence in what you're doing and not be afraid. You only have one life, and it's over pretty quickly, right? Don't throw it away. Dare to dream and believe dreams are possible.

Vincent Noot

#12. God is one answer to our need to explain ourselves, to make sense of ourselves. But the moment you just accept yourself, then no explanation is needed, and god is everything together and nothing in particular.

Adrienne Maree Brown

#13. Winston glanced across the hall. In the corresponding cubicle on the other side a small, precise-looking, dark-chinned man named Tillotson was working steadily away, with a folded newspaper on his knee and his mouth very close to the mouthpiece of the speakwrite.

George Orwell

#14. Every success I have ever had or will have in the future comes not solely
from my own ambition and hard work, but also from those that have encouraged,
supported and challenged me. Success is never, ever a one person job.

T.S. Tate

#15. It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#16. The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull.

Eleanor Herman

#17. She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I dream of - could have known the sorrow she speaks on? I wonder how she'll sin. All on us must sing.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#18. Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

Moshe Dayan