Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

• I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Hope
  • Years
  • Two

• I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Know
  • Two
  • Doodle

• My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Strange
  • Two

• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Two
  • Doctors
  • Leg

• Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Value
  • Two
  • Quantity

• We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Lose
  • Two
  • Three

• The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Believe
  • Incredible

• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • America
  • Two
  • Caribbean

• To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Enjoy
  • Say
  • Agree

• For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Two
  • Once
  • Decades

• I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

  

  O. R. Melling
  • Day
  • Always
  • Two

• There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and we even shot quite a bit of the movie in India.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Movie
  • Two
  • India

• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Friendship
  • Two
  • Pity

• There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Two
  • Principle
  • Alike

• I speak two languages, Body and English.

  

  Mae West
  • English
  • Body
  • Speak

• My father and my mother separated when I was two.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Two

• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Love
  • Two
  • Protect

• There are two things I wear. One is a Curvation undergarment over my whole body, and then maybe I'll also put on some Spanx. They're so great. They have a way of smoothing everything out, and then you can just put on whatever you want. It accents you and makes you feel pretty.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Want

• I'm a Gemini, so there's two people in me. Straight up. There's the nerd who is totally zoned out in the studio, EQ-ing this kick drum, raising this snare one decibel, or swapping this high hat out for another. Then there's the other side who's a performer. I have to go out on stage and be electric, a fire cracker, just run around the stage and give a show.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Up
  • High

• I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Thinking
  • Hurt
  • Media

• Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Music
  • Alone

• I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Two
  • Agree
  • Excellent Thing