Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Men
• Happiness
• God's Will

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• I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

  

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• 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

  

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• A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

  

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• As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

  

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• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

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• In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

  

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• One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

  

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• I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.

  

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• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

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• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

  

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• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

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• Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.

  

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• People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  

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• I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

  

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• In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I had to start having very intimate conversations with adult men at a very young age in order to get the work, but I'm really comfortable with dudes. I mean, we push boundaries in this business in terms of getting to know people.

  

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• Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.

  

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• What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

  

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• Simple doesn't mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.

  

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• For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Men
  • Happiness
  • God's Will