Ivan Doykov > Ivan's Quotes

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
― Sergei Rachmaninov

“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.”
― Sergei Rachmaninoff

“Stop telling God what to do with his dice.”
― Niels Bohr

“The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.”
― Niels Bohr

“Physics is not about how the world is, it is about what we can say about the world”
― Niels Bohr

“Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.”
― Ronald Reagan

“We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”
― Ronald Reagan

“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
― Ronald Reagan

“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.”
― Ronald Reagan

“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”
― Ronald Reagan

“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!”
― Ronald Reagan

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
― Ronald Reagan

“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”
― Ronald Reagan

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.”
― Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982

“I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.”
― Ronald Reagan

“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”
― Nancy Reagan

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
― Alexander Hamilton