#u

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#poets #russia #their #tyrants #worst

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves? ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#among #bastards #fall #liberals #out

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. ↗

— Lee Kuan Yew

#competitors #deprive #out #outsourcing #putting

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#art #deep #meanings #misery #one thing

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away. ↗

— Lee Kuan Yew

#away #because #before #days #did

Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists. ↗

— Lee Kuan Yew

#away #does #done #extremists #fact

We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure. ↗

— Wu Yi

#external #pressure #reform #right #time

Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he’s wrong. ↗

— Chad Harbach

#the-art-of-fielding #art

Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#deep #memory #miserable #only #pass

He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken. ↗

— Margaret Craven

#communication