Life Quotes

The principle of fair reduction is based on the concept of historic responsibility. Developed countries finished industrialising first. Thus, over the last 60 years, the developed countries, which represent 17 percent of the world's population, have ...

Yan Xuetong

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me".

Yohji Yamamoto

My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.

Yohji Yamamoto

Reading is dreaming with open eyes

Yoyo

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-u...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?' and 'What next?' ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload ...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and beheld a flying roll.

Zechariah 5:1

Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.

Zeresenay Alemseged

I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.

Zeresenay Alemseged

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

Zeresenay Alemseged