JJ Vladimir Quotes

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.

I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.

You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.

We can go mad whenever we like. We can leave our minds behind and play in the garden at night. The gate is always open. And the moon is always bright.

It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.

Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities.

One is always at home in one's past...

As to the past, I would not mind retrieving from various corners of space-time certain lost comforts, such as baggy trousers and long, deep bathtubs.

I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me.

If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too

Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature’s reality, the deception was bearable. Unbearable pain began when chance entered the fray and deprived me of the smile meant for me.

Coordinating thereEvents and objects with remote eventsAnd vanished objects. Making ornamentsOf accidents and possibilities.

Who grins in official circumstances?

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try and perhaps failing.

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.

It is what you are inside that matters. You yourself are your only real capital.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin, my soul.

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad.

I spend a little time every day to play sports.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia's security and independence.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources.

What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.