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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand
Man
World
Power
Own
Every
He
Builds
His
Escape
Choice
Choose
Image
Every Man
Necessity
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Ayn Rand
Man
Leader
Wreck
Course
Heap
His
Scrap
Being
Who
Lets
Prescribe
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand
Needs
Culture
Ethics
Every
Rational
New
Western
Western Culture
Aspect
Rebirth
Code
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine the Great
You
Soul
Courage
Mend
Take
Disaster
Beg
Brave
Even
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
Constantin Stanislavski
Work
You
Will
Own
Depend
Mine
Something
Make
Make Up
Method
Traditions
Beg
Up
Breaking
Create
Your
Keep
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman
Love
Stress
Minus
Plus
Give
Give And Take
Restrictions
Lay
Take
Never
Fails
Know
Without
Does
How
Transaction
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma Goldman
Forgiveness
Before
Another
Understand
Forgive
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Old
About
Something
Something New
New
Said
Subject
Cannot
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life
Love
You
World
Living
Every
Once
Destroy
Would
Immortality
Only
Only Love
Force
Dry
Continuation
Were
Up
Depended
Which
Mankind
Belief
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life
Man
Made
First
Half
Nothing
Though
Seems
Fact
Habits
He
Up
Accumulate
In Fact
Second
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
Helena Blavatsky
Mind
Will
Thought
Feeling
Gesture
Organic
Every
See
Mental
Emotion
Volition
Voluntary
Motion
Whether
Produced
Act
Internal
Mechanical
External
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
Isaiah Berlin
Death
Liberty
Wolves
Lambs
I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.
Khabib Nurmagomedov
History
Fight
People
Money
Legacy
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
Happiness
You
Big
Once
Small
Looks
Learn
Always
How
Go
Precious
Hands
Hold
While
Your
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky
Life
Work
Joy
Life Is A
Duty
Pleasure
Slavery
The influence of a woman can be very great, especially now, in the present order or disorder of society, in which there is a kind of spiritual chill, a kind of moral fatigue, demanding reanimation. In order to produce this reanimation, the cooperation of woman is indispensable.
Nikolai Gogol
Great
Spiritual
Woman
Chill
Demanding
Society
Fatigue
Kind
Moral
Indispensable
Very
Influence
Order
Which
Produce
Disorder
Cooperation
Now
Present
When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.
Sholom Aleichem
Best
You
Yourself
Better
Will
Think
Others
Pen
About
Write
Pick
Know
Know Yourself
Up
Die
Who
Things
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin
Capitalism
Stage
Monopoly
Say
Definition
Possible
Give
Imperialism
Were
Should
Necessary
NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.
Vladimir Putin
Time
Day
NATO
Once
Threat
Russia
Point
Counteract
Countries
New
Democratic
Because
Built
Coming
Soviet
Soviet Union
Where
Anymore
Them
Union
Now
Among
Number
The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.
Vladimir Putin
Try
Focus
Power
Politician
Every
Worst
Worst Thing
Possible
Only
Cling
Means
Thing
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
Wassily Kandinsky
Soul
Eyes
Key
Cause
Harmonies
Keyboard
Strings
Touching
Color
Piano
Another
Hand
Artist
Vibrations
Many
Plays
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Time
Way
Stubborn
Most
Demonstrating
Intelligent
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Communism
Try
Crushed
Building
Down
Rubble
Striking
Ourselves
Must
Instead
Freeing
Come
Concrete
Clock
Stopped
Being
Crashing
Reason
Save
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You
Travel
Memory
People
Own
Carry
Only
Bag
Countries
Know
Always
Your
Languages
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life
You
Man
Legal
Will
My Life
Society
Other
Indeed
Spent
Scale
All My Life
Tell
Worthy
Objective
Terrible
Without
Any
Quite
Either
Regime
Communist
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Art
Experience
Sole
Ourselves
Through
Substitute
Literature
Which
Lived
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