Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Think
  • Know
  • I Think

• I think that 'The Shield' was a phenomenal series finale.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Shield

• I think my dad has helped me tremendously.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Dad
  • I Think

• I think Steve Jobs is my idol.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Idol

• I think work begets work.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Work
  • Think
  • I Think

• I'm not a creature of Washington.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Creature
  • Washington

• I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.

  

  Jean Patou
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Creature

• I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Identity
  • Search
  • I Think

• I think it had to do with the people because some of our guys aren't used to this. It had to do with the crowd. When we got in a huddle, we had to settle down and realize it was just us and them.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • People
  • I Think
  • Realize

• I'm still on an adventure but it's more without a goal then it was in the earlier years. I'm letting myself be led to the places I think I want to go.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Myself
  • Adventure
  • I Think

• As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs.

  

  Robert Lee Hatfield
  • Song
  • Night
  • I Think

• I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Work
  • American
  • Doubt

• Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Integrity

• When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • I Think
  • Fantasy
  • George Graham

• I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Up
  • True
  • Past

• I think the most important thing in skiing is you have to be having fun. If you're having fun, then everything else will come easy to you.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Important
  • Fun
  • I Think

• An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Television
  • I Think
  • Actress

• There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.

  

  Bono U2
  • Sound
  • I Think
  • Prince

• There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • I Believe

• In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Great
  • Men
  • History

• 'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, and I did an episode called, 'Bunnies in the Bathroom.' And I'm not sure if it was my finest hour.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Children
  • Animal
  • Old

• Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • I Think
  • Creature
  • Man Is