Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: russian
Birth: December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008

Topics

Time Human Defend Rights West Much

I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.

Life Time Book You Always Turn

In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.

You Artist Resistance Outside Been

One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'

Money Me Wait You Back Career

Most people just see ski racing during the Olympics.

Mikaela Shiffrin

People Racing See Just Most Ski

My mother died of a stroke in 1974, and for a long time, I blamed myself. She was utterly devastated when I told her I was a lesbian not long before.

Miriam Margolyes

Mother Time Myself Long Long Time

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Compassion Pain Mind Debt Sorrow Us

I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.

Game Plan Late Never Too Late Even

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

Funny You Teach Somebody Either How

I did my first contest, and I got third, and my dad was, like, 'Wow, she has potential.' And I went back when I was 7, and I won. And my dad's like, 'All right,' and then he dropped everything.

Potential Back She First Right Wow

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Happiness Gratitude Me Moments Find

You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'

Family Memory Help You Dream Goal

An unsolicited sales pitch may be part of a fraudulent investment scheme. Exercise extreme caution if you receive an unsolicited communication - meaning you didn't ask for it and don't know the sender - about an investment opportunity.

Perianne Boring

Communication Opportunity Meaning You

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn