Vologda Oblast - Official pages of the Vologda Oblast (regional) Administration.
Greater Cleveland-Volgograd Oblast Alliance - A nonprofit organization that facilitates humanitarian assistance to non-governmental organizations and citizens living in the Volgograd Region of Russia.
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Vologodskaya Oblast I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Vologodskaya Oblast
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Vologodskaya Oblast The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Vologodskaya Oblast
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Vologodskaya Oblast "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Vologodskaya Oblast
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Vologodskaya Oblast "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Vologodskaya Oblast
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Vologodskaya Oblast Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Vologodskaya Oblast
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Vologodskaya Oblast A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Vologodskaya Oblast
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Vologodskaya Oblast When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Vologodskaya Oblast
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Vologodskaya Oblast "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Vologodskaya Oblast
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Vologodskaya Oblast The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Vologodskaya Oblast
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Vologodskaya Oblast "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Vologodskaya Oblast
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Vologodskaya Oblast Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Vologodskaya Oblast
