quotes about Gorbachev

last updated: November 28, 2023

Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes fascinating reading, and will also be a prime source for scholars long into the future.
-- Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

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I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it.
-- Vladimir Sorokin

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“Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.”

Source : "Kara Swisher discusses life, D: All Things Digital". Interview with Sarah Adler, www.sfgate.com. May 27, 2012.
“The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.”

Source : Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”
“Success lasts only three seconds. After that, you're the same as you were before you had it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.”
“A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.”
“Poverty is just a state of mind,”

Source : "HUD secretary Ben Carson: Poverty is largely 'a state of mind'" by Saba Hamedy, www.cnn.com. May 25, 2017.
“Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.”
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

Source : Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books
“I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.”
“Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.”

Source : Friedrich Schleiermacher (2016). “The Christian Faith”, p.338, Bloomsbury Publishing