Putschists Quotes

#1. The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian leadership, on the one hand, and that of the putschists, on the other.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#2. All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind.

Milan Kundera

#3. Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

Orison Swett Marden

#4. The meat loaf is coming right up, dear," she told Gabe. "Meat loaf surprise.

Rick Riordan

#5. Nay! At least you are valiant. Beyond all whom I have met. And they lie who say that we of our part do not honour the valour of foes. See now! I offer you freedom.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

Christopher Paolini

#7. The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it - orange-blossoms, in an English winter!

Sarah Waters

#8. In other words, I'm against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

Viggo Mortensen

#9. Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

Robert Burns

#10. Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.

Stieg Larsson

#11. Our relation, all round, exists
it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it

Henry James

#12. There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. - Andrew Lewis, under the alias Blue_beetle, on the Web site MetaFilter

Eli Pariser

#14. Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

Maria Montessori

#15. She calls me 'bird boy' and Hawkeye every time she gets a chance. Last year she bought me a bow and arrow for my birthday and told me it was for when the Avengers were called into action.

Lila Felix