Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Control
  • Difficult
  • Run

• If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Record
  • Exist
  • Get

• My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mother

• I have an unfortunate personality.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Funny
  • Personality

• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Character

• Get there first with the most.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • First
  • Get
  • Most

• The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Long
  • Family
  • Home

• The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistakes

• I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Interesting

• I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Remember
  • Values
  • Table

• Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• You always try to fight someone from another country. But having said that, the public knows, everybody knows, when there's two Mexicans in the ring, there will be a war.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Country
  • War
  • Fight

• It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Today
  • Funny

• When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • City

• I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • School
  • Pretty

• People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

  

  Dana Plato
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• It started out as a light romance, but he became demanding and possessive.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Light

• The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

  

  Eric Maskin
  • Design
  • Engineering

• Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Fear
  • Problems
  • Tragedy

• There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that - they are utter failures.

  

  Wendy Wright
  • Success
  • Failures
  • Condoms

• It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Weird

• Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky