Vladimir Vysotsky Quotes

#1. All who make wishes are the same. When one wish comes into conflict with someone else's wish ... then one must make a choice. Either abandon one's own wish ... or crush the other's wish for the sake of your own.

CLAMP

#2. There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.

Gautama Buddha

#3. Once you deposit that money in your checking account, it becomes the bank's money and you're just another one of their creditors.

Kenneth Eade

#4. But it's like the feeling you get at the end of a book you love.

Stuart Murdoch

#5. Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!

Margarita Gakis

#6. And that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are you?' now I ask, 'Who am I?

R. Scott Bakker

#7. The death beams slide around the sky like dancers on ice. As if exchanging partners in this vaulted ballroom of coloured smoke. He imagines a Strauss waltz accompanying the dance of the Nazi searchlights.

Glenn Haybittle

#8. Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

Thomas Brooks

#9. Most of the time, I do not want to die. But I would like to have the means of death within my grasp. I want to feel the luxury of choice, to know the answer to "How do I bear this?" need not always be "Endure.

Anna Lyndsey

#10. I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

Elizabeth Gilbert