Alexander Fedyunin > Alexander's Quotes

“But you can’t navigate a raft,” he added. “It goes sideways and backward and round as the wind takes it.”
― Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft

“У князей ведь и ум устроен не как у прочих людей. Сам в себе замечаю перемены великие! Едешь, бывало, вдоль рубежа, глянешь направо, на родное Многоборье, и думаешь: «Это мое». Глянешь налево, на соседскую землю, и вдругорядь мыслишь: «А ведь и то, если вдуматься, – мое же!»”
― Mikhail Uspenski, Кого за смертью посылать

“Дурак ты, Джихар Многоборец. То ли мы покойников не видели? Живых надо бояться…”
― Mikhail Uspenski, Время Оно

“Мама мыла Раму, а Рама краснел от сраму.”
― Mikhail Uspenski, Время Оно

“- Мудрецы древности учат, что красота может быть и не наружная, она внутри человека...

– Внутри человека кишки, – мрачно ответил Жихарь и загрустил от бесспорной своей правоты.”
― Mikhail Uspenski, Там, где нас нет

“when fate gives us lemons, we should try to make lemonade, not apple juice.”
― Noah J. Goldstein, Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

“Янтарным перламутром переливалась крупная лососевая икра, черным жемчугом отсвечивала икра осетровая. Присыпанные зеленым лучком ждали своего часа маринованные маслята. Прозрачные капли стекали по ломтикам соленой форели, а рядом на продолговатом блюде царственно возлежала копченая осетрина. Огромный тазик прозрачного желтого меда стоял чуть в стороне. С краю притулились кринка белоснежной сметаны и плошка густых матовых сливок. Поливка из сметаны с перетертым чесноком и хреном, хрустящие маринованные огурчики и чесночок, маленькие соленые помидоры и зеленая черемша, жбан холодного квасу, кувшин клюквенного морса, бутыль выпаренного густого яблочного сока и три запотевших литровых графина с водкой. Довершали натюрморт маленькие граненые стопки на высоких ножках.”
― Алексей Заревин, Золото под ногами: исторический детектив

“It is amazing the things people will believe if you catch them early enough.”
― Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge

“There isn’t a person alive who has not been afraid at one time or another. It is only the brave man who can feel fear and still go forward.”
― Harry Harrison, A Stainless Steel Trio: A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born, The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues

“Those little fish and the lobster as well are automatic survival mechanisms, like politicians. They”
― Hovav Heth, The Lobster's State of Mind: A Collection of Short Stories

“We only see two things in people, Jake’s dad used to say. What we want to see, and what they show us. Neither was the truth, and”
― Matthew Mather, Darknet

“Let’s begin with Level Flight. . . .”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition

“Are you saying I can fly?” “I say you are free.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition

“The problem with this is that you never feel ready enough. There will always be more to learn, so you will always be able to make an excuse that you should go off and learn more words before trying to speak to people. It’s”
― Benny Lewis, Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

“Most adults never master a foreign language, especially the phonology—hence the ubiquitous foreign accent.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“Birds fly not because they have a right to fly, but because they have wings.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“money isn’t a material reality – it is a psychological construct.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians.1 In contrast, over the course of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“I want to have money, so I don’t have to spend my life chasing money.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang Takedown

“To them, kindness was seen as weakness, mercy was perceived as cowardice and negotiation was a code word for a bullet in the head.”
― Neil Walker, Drug Gang Takedown

“You can keep waiting for somebody else to define you, or give you your place in the world, or you can decide that you're not just somebody's broken puppet anymore. Choose.”
― David Fury

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“The moment you have in your heart this extra-ordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”
― J. Krishnamurthy

“You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.”
― Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

“That's what people are like: they want talent, which is inherently peculiar, yet they absolutely don't want the peculiarities connected to it - perhaps necessarily bound up with it - which they refuse to understand or forgive.”
― Thomas Mann, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man