Rinat Akhmetov Quotes

#1. People disappear, leaving only bodies that flicker on and off in beds in time with the steady toggle of the dark.

Mark Haddon

#2. A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.

Will Christopher Baer

#3. Politics always change. Stories never do.

Stephen King

#4. When one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.

George Eliot

#5. My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

Zaha Hadid

#6. The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

Andy Rooney

#8. The only thing you have 100 percent control over is you.

Hyrum W. Smith

#9. All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

Jean-Luc Godard

#11. Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas .

Paul Tillich

#12. If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

Mikhail Bakunin

#13. And of what account was anybody's past, in the huge kaleidoscope where all the social atoms spun around on the same plane?

Edith Wharton

#14. I'm not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we've got to inspire our kids that we shouldn't be ashamed to be successful.

John Catsimatidis

#15. Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.

Emily Rodda