I wrote a letter to Gorbachev warning him that trouble was brewing. He replied, 'Alexander, you overestimate their intelligence and courage.' In July, I resigned. I said, 'Something's cooking, I can sense it.' He ignored me and went on holiday,
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Related Oh, God," I said. "No, it's Dexter," he replied, offering me his hand, which I ignored. He... SARAH DESSEN I said to him (Alexander) that if I were to put him back in the game and he were to get hurt, I woul... MIKE HOLMGREN He said, 'Hey dude, I wrote this script. Would you consider doing it?' I asked him to talk to me nex... SCOTTY MORRIS Hold on to me," Alec said, and Magnus gave him the sort of smile that made Alec feel like someone ha... CASSANDRA CLARE I learned so much from my cousin (Alexander). I think he did things the right way. That's how he mad... MILES DAVIS When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for... HENRY HAZLITT I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I have one coach and one coach only. His name is Alexander Vetrov. They brought him in for me when I... DAVID HALLBERG I love all Helmut Lang. I love Alexander Wang and Alice+Olivia. ADDISON TIMLIN Looking at what was reported on Shaun Alexander, I find it amazing that he could even be considered ... DR. MARGARET GOODMAN And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because lo... MARK HADDON I said, 'Where's the baby?' He wouldn't answer me. I went in my room, which has a crib, picked him u... TARYN THOMPSON I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting ... HUGH GRANT I ran out with Hunter, but Hamish and Bevan caught us,'' Alexander said. HAMISH CARTER The letter was a very special letter, and it touched me, ... I said, 'How can I say no?' ELIE WIESEL He twice asked me how much it was worth. He then said 'a thousand,' but I never replied, MICK JAGGER I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was tryi... MITCH HEDBERG Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so va... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so val... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions." ANTON CHEKHOV I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind. "Char... EDITH PATTOU You seem a lot like me," he said. "You don't gawk at me like I'm a freak." "I'll kick any... ELLEN SCHREIBER There was one reviewer from the 'New York Times,' I forget his name, who said I was 'dea... JAMES ROSENQUIST Try it again," I said. "Kiss me." "No," he said. "Kiss me." "No," And then he smiled.... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ He conducted the attack quite well and I had an unpleasant position despite the extra pawn. Alexande... VISWANATHAN ANAND I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory... BERTRAND RUSSELL I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough ar... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD Yes, we have gotten a letter from him (Haynes) that he has resigned. BRIAN BREESE I wouldn’t joke if you weren’t always patching me up,” Davin retorted. He looked at Chad again... J.M. RICHARDS Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my c... MAURICE SENDAK Bob Novak called me before he went to print with the report and he said a CIA source had told him th... JOE WILSON To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look... C.S. LEWIS I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it... HANNAH MILLS Please don't die," she whispered. "I don't think I can bury you. I already buried everyone els... PAULLINA SIMONS Alec," Magnus said. He put a hand on his boyfriend’s shoulder; Alec was standing still, staring an... CASSANDRA CLARE After the race, I went and found him. He said not to worry about it. I thought he might rough me up ... DAVID REUTIMANN The Persians could not move without central approval. It was all governed by Darius in the center. A... OLIVER STONE It was one that came from real life. I was having trouble getting through to a fellow cartoonist. He... BOB MANKOFF I wrote a script for a guy, and he said he liked it but he thought that I need to rewrite it. I said... MITCH HEDBERG I went down with my guitar and sat on his steps until he got there. And when he got there I introduc... JOHNNY CASH I called him to find out where he got the pamphlet and all he said was it was missing the label, ...... WILLIAM WATSON The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways--when you began writing me dizzy letters about ... ANNIE BARROWS So I told him I'd sell him a new wheel at cost, and I ordered it, but later he came in and said he'd... BRAD STEWART I did bless him at the end of our conversation. I said to him, 'Do you want the forgiveness of God?'... JOSEPH TOWLE Rather than resist them, he helped fledgling rivals develop their brewing skills. Their presence in ... BO BURLINGHAM We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was ... INGMAR BERGMAN Dad is so persuasive that when he said that he wasn't, I believed him. We had people calling. The me... JOAN FELT In 2003 the blackmail started. He started calling me and first said he was a private investigator. I... KIRK TALLEY In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from ... ANTON CHEKHOV He said in the letter, um, I want a girl from Lincoln-Hancock School, and he wrote, a 6 or 7-year-ol... JOELLEN DELLAMANO I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out... PATTI STANGER He knows,"I said. "I tell him everything" "Does that go both ways?" he asked. "Does what g... MAUREEN JOHNSON I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour a... BECKY G He knew who I was and that I was a fighter, and he said 'I'd like you train me, will you teach me?' ... AARON BRINK he says. ''It was one of those ponds that are stocked with fish. He told me not to bring any live ba... TED WILLIAMS I wrote a letter to him and told him to hurry back, I needed a sparring partner, JIM CALHOUN When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. H... CRAIG FERGUSON He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on t... MARK WAHLBERG Robspierre replied softly, 'the question is to know where is the enemy.' 'He is out there, and I hav... , "NINTY-THREE" Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess ... JOHN BUNYAN What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER It was strictly his decision. We did his evaluation before Christmas, and he said he was thinking ab... GARY CLAUSEN I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I asked him if it bothered him that I don't like baseball. He used to laugh, 'cause I'd say I'd stra... JODI OLSON I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexande... ALEX SPANOS I can live in at the Leela's or the road side, I am still John Alexander Tristram JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious s... MARTIN HENDERSON What is consciousness?” I asked. “I don’t know,” he replied, after a little hesitation. “N... JOHN C. LENNOX You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wr... CHARLES KING In my mind, I said the best things to Elton. I wrote countless excellent notes that I never sent. I ... MAUREEN JOHNSON A buddy of mine was writing to the president, and he talked me into writing. It was just a letter of... ERIC COLTON I was a titan, the reincarnation of Alexander the Great. My style was impetuous, my defenses were im... MIKE TYSON I was just trying to catch him. He had a little bit of a step on me. I just waited for him to bring ... COLBY ARMSTRONG Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they re... JAMES A. MOORE Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He... CHARLAINE HARRIS I went outside and talked to Manny a bit. He said that every goalie has to go through it. It meant a... JOSH HARDING A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kis... TERRY WOGAN And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew it, rig... LANA DEL REY I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ... NEIL GAIMAN I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at R... RITA ORA If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. PLUTARCH If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. ALEXANDER THE GREAT My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying "I love you." His love had to do with th... BILL COSBY If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I went to Austin to visit friends after Texas won the Rose Bowl. I went to their celebration at thei... CLANCY PENDERGAST I was just aggressive in that situation, ... He threw me a fastball and I went with it. VINNY CASTILLA He squeezed my shoulder and smiled at me. I realized that I hadn't kissed him hello, I always k... LAURELL K. HAMILTON He was tough on his feet, but I didn't know how good he was scouting me. Most people don't go undern... EVAN BROWN He thought I was just ignoring him, ... I told him that if I had gotten the letter, of course I woul... MITCH ALBOM And he looked at me, and he put the whistle in his mouth like I was coaching and he was going to giv... BRUCE PEARL He wrote some to me on different occasions. He wrote one when I turned 16. That one is really very d... DIANE JACOBOWITZ When I wrote to him, he was still starring in 'Third Rock,' so kids knew who he was. And I think he'... DAVID GALE I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned ... NADINE VELAZQUEZ One time he was running out and I heard him yelling at me, and it was happening too fast, ... He sai... JASON HANSON I am free only because my source, my one confidential source, wrote me a personal letter and called ... JUDITH MILLER What did I say? Let me think. I just said, good game. That was it. It wasn't too profound. He said t... ANTHONY GONZALEZ I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of co... JIM VALVANO I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther Kin... KATORI HALL Rip was aggressive early. And once he got it cooking, we kept going to him and we fed off him. When ... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS
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LAMAR ALEXANDER I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard Univers... LAMAR ALEXANDER September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country ... LAMAR ALEXANDER I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case s... LAMAR ALEXANDER As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different ... LAMAR ALEXANDER If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual ... DOUGLAS ALEXANDER The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Re... BILL ALEXANDER The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports ... BILL ALEXANDER This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the In... DOUGLAS ALEXANDER Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off... ALEXANDER SMITH Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear... ALEXANDER POPE See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philos... ALEXANDER POPE Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ... ALEXANDER POPE Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner... ALEXANDER MACLAREN No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody fl... ALEXANDER TROCCHI The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ... ALEXANDER HAMILTON When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i... ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be... ALEXANDER HAMILTON In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will. ALEXANDER HAMILTON The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t... ALEXANDER HAMILTON I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there w... EBEN ALEXANDER I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon. EBEN ALEXANDER I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. ... EBEN ALEXANDER As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. EBEN ALEXANDER There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscio... EBEN ALEXANDER Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth o... EBEN ALEXANDER The honor of a nation is its life. ALEXANDER HAMILTON In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th... ALEXANDER HAMILTON I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. ALEXANDER HAMILTON Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h... ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.] ALEXANDER POPE There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work bec... ALEXANDER HANSON I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom. ALEXANDER LEBEDEV Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho... ALEXANDER PAYNE Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ... ALEXANDER COCKBURN That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat... ALAN ALEXANDER It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin... ALAN ALEXANDER Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ... ALAN ALEXANDER I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo... ALAN ALEXANDER When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done. ALAN ALEXANDER The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. ALEXANDER POPE England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla... ALEXANDER COCKBURN Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di... JASON ALEXANDER War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp... ALEXANDER BERKMAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit... ALEXANDER HAMILTON More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion ALEXANDER CHASE A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed ALEXANDER CHASE To understand is to forgive, even oneself. ALEXANDER CHASE To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil... ALEXANDER CHASE The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible ALEXANDER CHASE Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so... ALEXANDER CHASE A man's home is his wife's castle ALEXANDER CHASE Memory is the thing you forget with ALEXANDER CHASE People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction. ALEXANDER CHASE Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored. ALEXANDER CHASE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale. ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til... ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know? ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ALEXANDER COMFORT My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'. SHAUN ALEXANDER A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is... ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd... ALEXANDER POPE But if
We have such another victory, we are undone. ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ... ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place. ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. ALEXANDER POPE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh... JAIMIE ALEXANDER Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others. ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. ALEXANDER POPE Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. ALEXANDER HERZEN Most women have no characters at all. ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil... ALEXANDER POPE All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know t... ALEXANDER TROCCHI Most authors steal their works, or buy. ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T... ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. ALEXANDER POPE Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. ALEXANDER HAMILTON The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit. ALEXANDER HAMILTON The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own ... ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a... ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own. ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso... ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. ALEXANDER POPE The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the... ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. ALEXANDER POPE Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. ALEXANDER POPE Our envy of others devours us most of all ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed... ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside. ALEXANDER POPE In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold; Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old; Be not t... ALEXANDER POPE The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is t... ALEXANDER CRUMMELL Strive to make something of yourself; then strive to make the most of yourself. ALEXANDER CRUMMELL