Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • She
  • Movie
  • Think

• We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Fight

• When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Remember
  • Enjoy
  • Swimming

• Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Eat
  • Chickens
  • Fox

• Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Picture
  • Acting
  • Talent

• If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Safe

• If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Think
  • Car
  • Couple

• I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• We do not need an Osami <sic> bin Laden leading us.

  

  Pat Robertson

• 'Man's inhumanity to man' is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • Truth
  • Struggle
  • Lies

• Happy in the time of Jesus were those who wept! Happy, now, are those who can laugh, because laughter is the attribute of man, as the great prophet of the Renaissance, Rabelais, said. Laughter is forbearance; laughter is philosophy. The heavens clear when they laugh, and the great secret of divine omnipotence resides in an eternal smile!

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Time
  • Great
  • Happy

• Maybe libertarians especially like Reddit because it is a perfect marketplace of content. Every Redditor is created equal, whether you're the highest karma Redditor or a brand-new Redditor with 10 karma points. No submissions or votes are more equal than others.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Perfect
  • Karma

• The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

  

  Arthur Bloch

• We know that in the Muslim communities around the world, they do not like us. They recruit people from poor areas and turn them into terrorists.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People
  • World

• I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

  

  Donna Murphy

• If the day ever comes when I am world No. 1, then great, but for me, the biggest dream was to win a slam, and I did it.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • World
  • Great
  • Dream

• When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebody had made a mistake, and they made an offer that was supposed to be $2,500 for the job, but they offered $25,000. I couldn't turn that down. I'd never heard of anything like that!

  

  Bruce McGill
  • Job
  • Mistake
  • Weird

• I don’t give advice. I can’t tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

  

  Joyce Brothers
  • Problem
  • Actions
  • Consequences

• Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.

  

  John B. Larson
  • American
  • Health
  • Insurance

• Courage is always rewarded.

  

  Kenny Loggins
  • Courage

• Rule of policing number one – when something good falls into your lap, pass it up the chain of command as quickly as possible before something else bad can happen.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Rule
  • Command
  • Policing

• As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.

  

  Johannes Tauler
  • Good
  • Wine

• The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky