Tsarist Regime Quotes

#1. Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutionary crisis ... the tsarist regime's downfall was not inevitable; but its own stupidity made it so.

Orlando Figes

#2. It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.

Orlando Figes

#3. When the court is arrayed in splendor, The fields are full of weeds, And the granaries are empty. Some wear gorgeous clothes, Carry sharp swords, And indulge in food and drink; They have more possessions than they can use. They are robber barons. This is certainly not the way of Tao.

Lao-Tzu

#4. In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough.

Alberto Cairo

#5. Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

Roger Scruton

#6. What doesn't kill me... Better start running!

Richelle Mead

#7. Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#8. You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

Julia Child

#9. I had thought the destination was what was important, but it turned out it was the journey.

Clayton M Christensen

#10. Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing.

Agatha Christie

#11. Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening.

Yasmin Mogahed

#12. Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

Walter Darby Bannard

#13. 'Obamacare,' as it's been called, is far too reaching. It's overreaching. It needs to have a lot of it repealed.

Joe Manchin

#14. Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

J.D. Salinger

#15. I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.

Eric Bana