Natan Sharansky Quotes

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

Natan Sharansky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: January 20, 1948

Topics

FearExperienceOptimismDemocracy

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.

Joe J. Walsh

GrowHelpYouCreateNothingTry

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'.

John Ashcroft

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Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.

Melissa Marr

DayEvery DayDownOverNovelEvery

Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

Amy Lee

Rock StarYouI CanKnowRockWhy

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

Michele Bachmann

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Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

SunEnjoyHeavenGoOutGone

When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.

Joyce Kilmer

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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia.

Jason Aldean

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A smile is like an instant facelift and an instant mood lift.

Christie Brinkley

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The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library.

Alison Gopnik

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I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

Sean Lennon

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