Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

When… in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Execution

• There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Family

• I got discovered off of YouTube.

  

  Becky G
  • Got
  • YouTube
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• Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Character
  • Imagination
  • Witty

• I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • People
  • Life
  • Worry

• Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Imagination
  • View
  • Again

• What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Learning
  • Empathy
  • Medical

• He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Fight
  • First
  • Give

• The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Character
  • Past

• If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Different
  • Feel

• It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Good
  • You
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• I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Future
  • Three
  • Impact

• If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Need
  • Gun

• People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Change
  • Relationship

• I somehow see what's beautiful In things that are ephemeral I'm my only friend of mine And love is just a piece of time in the world in the world. And I couldn't help but fall in love again.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • World
  • Help

• Our hope is that whosoever is in power, manages this country consistently for all the potential the country has.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Country
  • Power
  • Hope

• We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

  

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  • People

• I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

  

  Corey Haim

• Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life

• I don't really follow the rules of like - not traditional, but how everyone does YouTube. And it's kind of made me more cautious and conscious of what I put into my videos.

  

  Kian Lawley

• I am involved in the architecture of space.

  

  James Turrell
  • Space
  • Architecture

• So far, the actual actions taken have been relatively modest, but there is some hope, I think, that, going forward, these actions will advance further and we will see more progress in the current account.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Hope
  • Taken
  • Progress

• Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Difficult

• When… in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky