Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

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  • Movie
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• I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Believe
  • Freedom
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• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
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• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Up
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• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
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• I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Think
  • Always
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• It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Society
  • Vision
  • Solution

• The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Country
  • Picture
  • Process

• I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Heart
  • Funny
  • Nice

• I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Work
  • Talent
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• For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Art
  • Hope
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• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
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  • Fall

• My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Vision
  • Nation
  • India

• Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • War
  • Die

• I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Myself
  • Creative
  • West

• I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Water
  • Drink
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• Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• Russians don't complain, usually.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Complain
  • Russians

• Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Ability
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• The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her - 'Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness...'

  

  George Eliot
  • Believe
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  • Mother

• A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Great
  • Present
  • Thoughts

• That said, I, Beck Phillips, take full responsibility for being stuck in m y school's pitch-black venting system with my friend Jason, behind me and a garbage bag full of angry bees in front of me.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • School
  • Black
  • Friend

• Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Words
  • Tragedy

• A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Mother