Svetlana Alliluyeva Quotes

#1. Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment ... Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new ...

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#2. Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

Muhammad Ali

#3. Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse, he is not religious. But once he has heard that pulse, he will be hearing it always. Every day his life will replenish itself from this inexhaustible source, eternal and powerful as the sun.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#4. Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

Ruth Wisse

#5. Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#6. You have only one friend in this world, yourself.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#7. In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

Patti Smith

#8. It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#9. History is a stern judge.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#10. The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not explain what it sounds like ... If the spark isn't smoldering somewhere inside one, no efforts can ever bring it into existence. Water cannot catch fire.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#11. Believe as though you are, and you will be ...

Ernest Holmes

#12. A person who does not do anything for the fulfilment of his goal and mission on earth is a "living dead

Sunday Adelaja

#13. For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self ...

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#14. Go to meet destiny halfway and destiny will come to your assistance.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#15. I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.

Marian Keyes

#16. As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#17. When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#18. I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

Werner Klemperer

#19. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.

William Shakespeare

#21. A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#22. God grants an easy death only to the just.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#23. The location of Giza and more specifically that of the Great Pyramid is not random in reference to the three only holy sites of Islam. The lunar year's quantity itself was encoded therein.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#24. I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#25. I note however that this diary writing does not count as writing, since I have just re-read my year's diary and am much struck by the rapid haphazard gallop at which it swings along, sometimes indeed jerking almost intolerably over the cobbles.

Virginia Woolf

#26. All large cities are alike at night.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#27. It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#28. Today is the day to stop, look around, realize where you are in relation to where you want to be, change direction if needed and move forward with faith in God and in yourself.

Toni Sorenson

#29. You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

Virginia Woolf

#30. Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

Chang-rae Lee

#31. The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#32. You're not wrong for doin what you want.

Wiz Khalifa

#33. Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.

Svetlana Alliluyeva