JJ Vladimir Quotes

I was told that [Japan journalists] wanted to see my dog, Yume. You can see that she is in great shape.

This issue is not economic but political. I hope that all market participants interested in maintaining stable and reasonable world energy prices will finally make the right decision.

I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.

Yume is a no-nonsense dog. There are many people here, with camcorders running, lights shining and cameras clicking. She is being a guard dog.

I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan.

It is 60 years since the restoration of diplomatic relations, but relations between Japan and Russia have much deeper roots. In all, our diplomatic ties date back 150 years, more than 150 years now.

Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] and I have spoken a lot, and we said all the right things, in my opinion, about creating an atmosphere of trust and friendship between our nations and peoples.

I believe a healthy lifestyle is an extremely important thing which underpins solution to numerous important problems, including the health of the nation.

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.

The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

All religions are based on obsolete terminology.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.

He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

I think happiness is love.

The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God.

From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki

Love enters only one gates - the spiritual heart opened towards! And then the reciprocal wave of love arises in it, streaming outside. In that way love lives and grows.

Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"

The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.

Do not hate a sinner, for we all are to be res­pon­sible.

The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter the chaste and pure region of the heart.

This purity is attained through conquering the passions.

The one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all.

Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.

... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil!

The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.

If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life.

A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.

I'm not as good as I want to be.

I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.

I tried to use batting gloves at the beginning of every spring training up until 1999. It just didn't feel good.

As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.

Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against the computer, you make only one mistake - the last one.

Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match.

I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.

Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.

I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.