#any

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#central #even #human #human beings #important

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

#communist #either #i #indeed #legal

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#begun #coherent #conducting #declared #government

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#forced #his #inevitably #lie #man

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#anything #friends #hide #i #just

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#even #fall #how #i #leave

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#alternative #anything #conservation #else #energy

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#backlash #had #i #never #thing

The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#evening #higher #life #morning #much

You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life. ↗