Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: March 2, 1931

Topics

GoWayPossibleStartingAboveOnly

First and foremost, energy efficiency is a major lever for reducing CO2 emissions along all parts of the energy chain - from the production of resources all the way to final consumption.

Joe Kaeser

EnergyEfficiencyWayFirstFinal

Compassion and empathy are anathema to sports.

Steve Rushin

SportsCompassionEmpathyAnathema

Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.

Simon McBurney

ArtDayWorldDiscoveryGoCave

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

Tony Randall

TheatreGoalActingNeverFirst

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

Robert Bresson

BestDoingYouKnowInspiration

I don't think Russia could start a war by attacking any of the NATO member states.

Milos Zeman

WarStartThinkRussiaNATOMember

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Dean Smith

LifeDeathGameProblemsYouDead

I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though I'm not by any means an expert, but I love reading about physics and math and that kind of stuff. I wish I knew more than I did. I mean, I read books written for laymen, not textbooks or anything.

Chris Parnell

LoveScienceMathematicsMeReading

At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?

Claire Messud

DayEnd Of The DayEndMoreWould

Free trade was once a Republican conviction.

Bret Stephens

FreeRepublicanConvictionFree Trade

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Thomas Merton

GodCourageListeningHimPresence

Makeup ignites a psychological transformation of both the wearer and the observer. My paintings sought to locate the subject of art within the manipulation of that altered predisposition.

Richard Phillips

ArtMakeupTransformationWithin

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev