What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills o...
BORIS PASTERNAK Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf...
BORIS PASTERNAK It's only in mediocre books that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each ...
BORIS PASTERNAK That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
BORIS PASTERNAK What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God...
BORIS PASTERNAK I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much...
BORIS PASTERNAK No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with ...
BORIS PASTERNAK As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be ...
BORIS PASTERNAK Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
BORIS PASTERNAK You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than ...
BORIS PASTERNAK They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the thing...
BORIS PASTERNAK Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time,...
BORIS PASTERNAK I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down ...
BORIS PASTERNAK Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts...
BORIS PASTERNAK That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't tak...
BORIS PASTERNAK What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarme...
BORIS PASTERNAK As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
BORIS PASTERNAK I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't...
BORIS PASTERNAK Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
BORIS PASTERNAK As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do the...
BORIS PASTERNAK Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates li...
BORIS PASTERNAK Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
BORIS PASTERNAK Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ...
BORIS PASTERNAK How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
BORIS PASTERNAK Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
BORIS PASTERNAK In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from...
BORIS PASTERNAK At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandone...
BORIS PASTERNAK No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAK I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I do...
BORIS PASTERNAK „В читалнята сравнявах увлеченото й четене с въодушев...
BORIS PASTERNAK The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his or...
BORIS PASTERNAK Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts...
BORIS PASTERNAK Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May ...
BORIS PASTERNAK You fall into my arms. / You are the good gift of destruction's path, / When life sickens more than ...
BORIS PASTERNAK That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
BORIS PASTERNAK At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abando...
BORIS PASTERNAK Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all th...
BORIS PASTERNAK Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx....
BORIS PASTERNAK The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health ...
BORIS PASTERNAK What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills o...
BORIS PASTERNAK In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
BORIS PASTERNAK It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle bur...
BORIS PASTERNAK Don’t be upset. Don’t listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious elemen...
BORIS PASTERNAK When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your ...
BORIS PASTERNAK Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I love...
BORIS PASTERNAK Ah, then it's a gift.
BORIS PASTERNAK They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things yo...
BORIS PASTERNAK I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broke...
BORIS PASTERNAK A corner draft fluttered the flame, and the white fever of temptation, upswept its angel wings that ...
BORIS PASTERNAK No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.
BORIS PASTERNAK „Тя не държи да се харесва — мислеше си той, — да бъде �...
BORIS PASTERNAK About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particular...
BORIS PASTERNAK And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
BORIS PASTERNAK Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.
BORIS PASTERNAK No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with ...
BORIS PASTERNAK To be a woman is a great adventure;
To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
BORIS PASTERNAK She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
BORIS PASTERNAK And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our du...
BORIS PASTERNAK Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all th...
BORIS PASTERNAK I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.
BORIS PASTERNAK Everything had changed suddenly--the tone, the moral climate; you didn't know what to think, whom to...
BORIS PASTERNAK I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value....
BORIS PASTERNAK It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he ...
BORIS PASTERNAK I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
BORIS PASTERNAK But who are we, where do we come from
When all those years
Nothing but idle talk is left BORIS PASTERNAK How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if...
BORIS PASTERNAK You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to ...
BORIS PASTERNAK Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic l...
BORIS PASTERNAK Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK She envisioned the whole organization, it's her baby.
AIDA PASTERNAK Her work is exquisite, the look and feel is unique. She uses the medium to its best advantage -- por...
AIDA PASTERNAK She's tops in her field.
AIDA PASTERNAK Wet, she was a star - dry, she ain't
JOE PASTERNAK You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I'll write it myself.
JOE PASTERNAK Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
BORIS YELTSIN When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.
BORIS SPASSKY We were like bishops of opposite color.
BORIS SPASSKY I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this br...
BORIS JOHNSON A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out...
BORIS YELTSIN I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
BORIS JOHNSON Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.
BORIS SOKOLOFF It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such ...
BORIS YELTSIN I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
BORIS JOHNSON Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody...
BORIS MARSHALOV A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
BORIS YELTSIN Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
BORIS YELTSIN My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as ...
BORIS JOHNSON Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybod...
BORIS MARSHALOV I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
BORIS BECKER Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody ...
BORIS MARSHALOV One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anyth...
BORIS VIAN When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was ...
BORIS BECKER I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, yo...
BORIS JOHNSON My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
BORIS JOHNSON There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, fr...
BORIS JOHNSON I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no ...
BORIS JOHNSON I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I h...
BORIS JOHNSON We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in futu...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long ti...
BORIS JOHNSON In the words of Mr Thierry Coup of Warner Bros: 'We are taking the most iconic and powerful moments ...
BORIS JOHNSON You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.
BORIS YELTSIN We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.
BORIS YELTSIN Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in ...
BORIS YELTSIN The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as mu...
BORIS BECKER While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected offici...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected Pre...
BORIS YELTSIN My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low mo...
BORIS JOHNSON A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading...
BORIS BECKER Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and rem...
BORIS YELTSIN You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
BORIS YELTSIN Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really app...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He...
BORIS KODJOE The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emot...
BORIS BECKER I used to get very, very frustrated by people being told what to do by nanny in Brussels. And I reme...
BORIS JOHNSON A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading...
BORIS BECKER I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the ch...
BORIS BECKER I had the pleasure of competing at the Olympic Games and at Wimbledon and was fortunate enough to wi...
BORIS BECKER Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
BORIS BECKER The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls,
BORIS BECKER I am thrilled to be the new team captain. I am sure that the pressures I've faced on centre court wi...
BORIS BECKER The only thing I had on my mind was tennis, and sometimes girls, ... My life was all about tennis. M...
BORIS BECKER It was the shortest tag-team match I had in history. They jumped us during the Russian national anth...
BORIS ZHUKOV We got up in the air, and Terry Gordy looks over and sees oil coming down the wing. The oil pressure...
BORIS ZHUKOV I enjoy being the bad guy. It's a lot easier to get people to hate you than to love you.
BORIS ZHUKOV Wrestling became tunnel vision for me.
BORIS ZHUKOV I've practiced that Russian voice since I was a kid. I've always done imitations of people's voices....
BORIS ZHUKOV The majority of people still haven't felt the results of economic reform and aren't satisfied with o...
BORIS YELTSIN Islam will not forgive the Americans for a long time - the fact that they destroyed a country like I...
BORIS YELTSIN In principle, most of the issues have been resolved peacefully, ... But one question, which I would ...
BORIS YELTSIN You have no right to criticize Russia for Chechnya, ... We are obliged to put an end to the spread o...
BORIS YELTSIN Russia is deeply upset by NATO's military action against sovereign Yugoslavia, which is nothing more...
BORIS YELTSIN Russia has every opportunity to bring reforms to a successful finish and establish peace and order. ...
BORIS YELTSIN is doing very little to get Russia out of the present crisis.
BORIS YELTSIN I made the decision on the government's resignation, at the same time having in mind that (Chernomyr...
BORIS YELTSIN I declare the resignation of the government of the Russian Federation,
BORIS YELTSIN Despite Russia's resolute actions, NATO military action against Yugoslavia continues to escalate,
BORIS YELTSIN We found five large hotspots that are still remaining today, and two of those are in US waters.
BORIS WORM These areas are really of global significance. It's really important to protect them now, because 20...
BORIS WORM Where you used to put out a fishing line 50 years ago and catch 10 species, now you catch five speci...
BORIS WORM In order to do this you really need a historical base line to know what you are working towards.
BORIS WORM It's been a slow-motion disaster. It's silent and invisible. People don't imagine this. It hasn't ca...
BORIS WORM The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant...
BORIS VIAN Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks.
BORIS VIAN I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.
BORIS VIAN There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans ...
BORIS VIAN The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and El...
BORIS VIAN One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything ...
BORIS VIAN Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes...
BORIS VIAN I had a discussion with the editor of the magazine and he said that he wanted to have a painting tha...
BORIS VALLEJO I actually think that there is definitely a value in studying art at an art school. I myself went to...
BORIS VALLEJO You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics,...
BORIS VALLEJO Learning and getting better with each portrait is what I strive for,
BORIS VALLEJO Everyone has a photograph of themselves, but not many have a drawing or portrait done by another hum...
BORIS VALLEJO A lot of portrait artists specialize in men, women or children,
BORIS VALLEJO I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because...
BORIS VALLEJO There's the possibility of someone doing it before me, but I personally didn't know it; then or now....
BORIS VALLEJO There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is direc...
BORIS VALLEJO You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can...
BORIS VALLEJO a bleeding wound of southern Europe.
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Thos...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI The rage on the streets is not the answer,
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI If NATO troops stayed on, this would only give us a sense of false security ... and create another B...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI aimed at achieving a political settlement as soon as possible.
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international c...
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI a pro-European candidate... for new political values.
BORIS TADIC We are working very hard on that issue,
BORIS TADIC There's this legal technicality,
BORIS TADIC Serbia is a democratic country today,
BORIS TADIC I trust police and military reports that I am getting today: that Mladic is somewhere between Bosnia...
BORIS TADIC To say that all is as it was before would be dangerous. Serbia after October the 5th is different, b...
BORIS TADIC Of course, we can decide not to cooperate with The Hague tribunal but we have to be aware that the c...
BORIS TADIC A disintegration of Serbia-Montenegro could cause a chain reaction and destabilize a wider region,
BORIS TADIC Serbia does not want at all to arrange political relations among ethnic Albanians in Kosovo,
BORIS TADIC I am absolutely against destabilization of the Balkan peninsula,
BORIS TADIC In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a K...
BORIS SPASSKY I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good...
BORIS SPASSKY I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.
BORIS SPASSKY I don't want ever to be champion again.
BORIS SPASSKY I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.
BORIS SPASSKY I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.
BORIS SPASSKY For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly...
BORIS SPASSKY When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and...
BORIS SPASSKY Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of th...
BORIS SPASSKY The markets are reacting to the polls, but investors will sell off more aggressively if Flores doesn...
BORIS SEGURA The dissenting votes are evidence that policy makers' outlook on inflation is improving. Why not sta...
BORIS SEGURA They were obviously not comfortable with the orders they had.
BORIS SEGURA The new public credit team is much more realistic regarding market conditions for Argentina. This pr...
BORIS SEGURA The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The residual impact from the Fed is definitely positive for the dollar. The Fed message is clearly a...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG As oil prices go below $60 per barrel, it should translate to yen strength. I think we are far close...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG Euro-dollar dropped about 40 points in the aftermath of the release but recovered some of the loss, ...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The ECB is trying to walk a very fine line between its mandate to control the budding inflationary p...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The euro has been the victim of an ever widening interest-rate differential to the dollar, a dynamic...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The news augurs well for the Japanese economy as confidence is now spreading through the full spectr...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The yen remains the preferred funding currency for carry trades. The Swiss franc was the alternative...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG The fact that it's actually shrinking gives the dollar a short-term boost.
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG Katrina's effect was far less destructive than initially feared. The true extent of the damage, howe...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG