A wise man once said that you should never believe a thing simply because you want to believe it. - Peter Dinklage
I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf. - Peter Dinklage
Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff. - Peter Dinklage
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement. - Abraham Lincoln
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. - John Lennon
Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth. - Albert Schweitzer
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world. - Albert Schweitzer
A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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