Alexander Belov Quotes

Lowering his voice, he said, "In America we have a custom. When you're given presents for your birthday, you're supposed to open them and say thank you."
Tatiana nervously looked down at the present. "Thank you." Gifts were not something she was used to. Wrapped gifts? Unheard of, even when they came wrapped only in plain brown paper.
"No. Open first. Then say thank you."
She smiled. "What do I do? Do I take the paper off?"
"Yes. You tear it off."
"And then what?"
"And then you throw it away."
"The whole present or just the paper?"
Slowly he said, "Just the paper."
"But you wrapped it so nicely. Why would I throw it away?"
"It's just paper."
"If it's just paper, why did you wrap it?"
"Will you please just open my present?" said Alexander ~ Paullina Simons

He yanked up a couple of mushrooms. "Tania, can we eat these?"
Taking them out of his hands and throwing them back on the ground, Tatiana said, "Yes. But we will only be able to eat them once. ~ Paullina Simons

What were you doing fighting with me at Kirov, knowing all this was stacked against us?

Raging against my fate. ~ Paullina Simons

If there is God, I thought ... Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh ... " "Tatiasha ... isn't it nice to know there is a God? ~ Paullina Simons

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. ~ Alexander Pope

You don't see heroism, humanity and hope like you do in a horror story. Horror celebrates the kind of friendship that keeps you standing shoulder to shoulder with someone even when the world is falling apart around you. ~ Alexander Gordon Smith

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true. ~ Alexander Payne

I wanted to prepare for a life of sudden transformations, of enemies singing at you across the stage dressed in the costume of a lover. ~ Alexander Chee

I think you can never know what you can live without. I think you can never know what you will live through. Only when the disaster arrives and you are there does the depth of your real inner resources reveal itself, and not a moment before. ~ Alexander Chee

The past is dead, the future is life.

-Alexander M. ~ Alexander Maxhall

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day. ~ Alexander Payne

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. ~ Alexander Pope

He shows the most amazing brass neck," she said. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. ~ Alexander Hamilton

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage. ~ Alexander Fraser Tytler

Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together. Stories are the mud from which we're all made. The power to imagine stories is the power to remake the world as we dream it. ~ C. Alexander London

But do I really want my vagina to heal over through lack of use either? ~ Nick Alexander

Mma Makutsi was unconvinced. "Where there is smoke there's fire, Mma. I have always said that." Mma Ramotswe could not let that pass. "But what does Clovis Andersen say in The Principles of Private Detection, Mma? Does he not say that you must be very careful to decide where the smoke is coming from? Smoke can drift, Mma. Those were his exact words, I think. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

I'd like to be tidy, said Hen, I try, but I guess you can't be what you aren't. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

The eternal tension between what is and what ought to be either leads to frustration or transformation. The choice is yours. ~ Alexander Den Heijer

Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least authority to command or exact obedience from him, except that which arose from the ties of consanguinity. ~ Alexander Hamilton

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

It's a strange time to teach someone to write stories. But I think it always is. This is just our strange time. ~ Alexander Chee

I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end. ~ Khandi Alexander

Was particularly hard for women now, when there were so many children left without ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Love and a sense of security are, of course, foundations for our psychological development. ~ D.C. Alexander

I have had bosses that were genuinely excited when I told them I was pregnant. I feel very blessed, but I also know I need to continue to do excellent work and stay organized. ~ Megan Alexander

Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew ... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God. ~ Cecil Frances Alexander

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college. ~ Lloyd Alexander

State and local law enforcement agencies were granted the authority to keep, for their own use, the vast majority of cash and assets they seize when waging the drug war. ~ Michelle Alexander

Corporate America doesn't really have an interest in Formula One because there is nothing American in it at this point. It is European and all made by Europeans. Until that changes, the interest isn't going to be at the level it needs to be. ~ Alexander Rossi

Climate alarmists insist that the apparently missing heat (from CO2 warming)is hiding in the deep ocean -- which is like telling a child Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, as deep ocean heat can't be measured.
-- Ralph B. Alexander, Letter to The Oregonian, January 28, 2013 ~ Ralph B. Alexander

The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a great deal more than they read the Bible. They see us; they only hear about Jesus Christ. ~ Alexander MacLaren