Gorbachev famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

  • The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

  • Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.

  • At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.

  • A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.

  • Poverty is just a state of mind,

  • Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

  • The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  • I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

  • Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.