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

• I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• 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 knew there were calls for diversity in children's lit, but you always wonder as a person of color, how diverse is too diverse?

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Children
  • Wonder
  • Color

• You can run 20km, 80, 100, and if there's no spirit between the players, the coaches, as colleagues, it won't come out as well.

  

  Diego Costa

• We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Freedom
  • Price
  • Gain

• There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

  

  Louis Stokes

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

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky