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Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

The unspoken contract between ruler and subject is that in return for safety, prosperity, and prestige, the Russians entrust power and cede democratic freedoms to their leaders.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: June 27, 1965

Topics

Power Safety Prosperity Contract

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.

Jim Lee

Time Looking Small Design You Want

Neither Neil Armstrong nor Michael Collins had a mental breakdown after returning from the moon.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Moon Returning Mental Breakdown Nor

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

Tommy Rettig

Me World Thought Smoking Help Worst

Hopefully, I'm not stealing scenes from other actors, because then they won't want to work with me.

Rob Riggle

Work Me Want Stealing Because Then

If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.

Ry Cooder

Future Past Song You Predict Drag

I loved the 'Die Hard' films growing up and the 'Taken' movies. They're so entertaining, and I enjoy being on the edge of my seat.

Michelle Dockery

Growing Up Loved Die Enjoy Edge Up

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges

Sand Stone Build Nothing Must Built

Good poets borrow; great poets steal.

David Shields

Good Great Borrow Steal Poets

I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Baseball First Over Pretty Painful

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

Brian Behlendorf

Better Nation Engage Educated Sell

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

Bob Edwards

Home Bed Go Up Get Again

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

Anne Perry

Great Sacrifice War Believe Fighting