Vladislav Quotes

#1. Theo, Celery doesn't think you should invite Lulu to your hypothetical Bar Mitzvah.

Gitty Daneshvari

#2. Do you have any idea how rare a twenty-three-year-old virgin is where I come from?

Maeve Greyson

#3. If any of you want to be the greatest, then you must become the least, and become like a servant to all people.

Hidenori Kumai

#4. Parties can't be artificially assembled at the Kremlin.

Vladislav Surkov

#5. I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

Vladislav Surkov

#6. The main problem is that many support the United Russia Party without even agreeing with its ideology - or even having an ideology of their own.

Vladislav Surkov

#7. As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.

Vladislav Surkov

#8. Soviet-era nostalgia has strong support among the people. But not among the elite and, in my opinion, not with the president. We are not interested in keeping remnants of the communist era alive.

Vladislav Surkov

#9. There is no substitute for love, hope and faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I'd been on combat missions. 217 days. And I'm still paying the price for every one of those days.

Vladislav Tamarov

#11. When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with our lives as in the past, but as good neighbors.

Vladislav Surkov

#12. I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.

Vladislav Surkov

#13. We didn't believe in tomorrow. We we couldn't forget what had happened yesterday.

Vladislav Tamarov

#14. For a sweet moment, the weight of human and godly concerns lifted from Justin, and he was left only with the memory of that kiss.

Richelle Mead

#15. DON PEDRO Hath she made her affection known to Benedick?
LEONATO No, and swears she never will; that's her torment.
CLAUDIO 'Tis true, indeed, so your daughter says. 'Shall I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him with scorn, write to him that I love him?

William Shakespeare

#16. Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

Peter McWilliams

#17. The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

Louisa May Alcott

#18. Shon has been his right hand for the last five years. Shon was his best friend and like a brother to him- not just someone who worked for him.

Jessica N. Watkins

#19. Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic intuition will start to come about.

Frederick Lenz

#20. There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

Vladislav Tretiak

#21. Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Vladislav Rastorotsky

#22. These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks ... but Fala does resent them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#23. If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

Susan Sontag

#24. Ovechkin does not play like a Russian. He plays like an NHL player.

Vladislav Tretiak

#25. When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible.

Vladislav Tamarov

#26. There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].

Vladislav Tamarov

#27. The people who will thrive in this new world order are those who can repeatedly and successfully transform themselves: Reinventors.

Anonymous

#28. By 1989, the total number of Vietnam veterans who had died in violent accidents or by suicide after the war exceeded the total number of American soldiers who died during the war.

Vladislav Tamarov

#29. When I came home, I was asked to put my pictures in a photo exhibit at the Cinematography College ... my pictures won first prize. I began to ask myself what I was doing, and why. A few months after the exhibit, I dropped out of college, left my wife and began to write this book.

Vladislav Tamarov

#30. I walk in bliss through flowerbeds
of broken urns, and glorify
thy flight, O Saturn, over us
along the empty starry sky.

Vladislav Khodasevich

#31. I am asked if I think the war was a just war ... how can I answer? I was a boy born and raised in beautiful Leningrad, a boy who loved his parents and went obediently to school. A boy who was yanked out of that life and dumped in a strange land where life followed different rules.

Vladislav Tamarov