Russian History famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of villages warning of danger, 'When night wolf swallows mother moon, there will be great famine.'

  • I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

  • The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

  • Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.

  • An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.

  • All talk on Islamic States is just an empty dream. No man in his right sense would accept a nation which bases its political administration on religion, and in a country like Malaysia with its multiracial and multireligious people, there is no room for an Islamic State.

  • The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

  • I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it

  • Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  • Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.