Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • High
  • Energy
  • Cost

• The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Story
  • Situation

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Man

• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Job
  • Never
  • Needed

• If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Rights

• I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Think
  • Teach
  • Patience

• If I can do something for the game and the young cricketers through the ICL, I will not budge

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Game

• It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Long
  • Earth
  • Morning

• Amazon doesn't want to give Apple a cut of its media sales, so Apple won't let Amazon sell products in its apps.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Sales

• The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People

• I love the Memphis sound. When I was 16-and-a-half, with my driver's permit, I was playing New Jersey clubs in a 10-piece band; we had a horn section and would play great, great songs like 'Hold On! I'm Comin'' and 'Knock on Wood' and 'Midnight Hour.'

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Great
  • Band

• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Small
  • Prayer

• My dad used to tour playing guitar with New Edition.

  

  Algee Smith
  • Dad

• Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

  

  Arthur Laurents

• If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • Family
  • Words
  • Bible

• Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Influence
  • Punk Rock
  • Rock Bands

• I don't really buy expensive clothes. I love good bags!

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Good

• People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • People
  • Work
  • Stop

• The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.

  

  George Muller
  • God
  • Family
  • Business

• Every day of my life, I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Day

• A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • World

• The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky