Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Нет бессмертия души, так нет и добродетели, значит, всё позволено. … Без бога-то и без будущей жизни? Ведь это, стало быть, теперь всё позволено, всё можно делать?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Important
  • Eyes
  • Face

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Dad

• I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Because
  • Fan
  • Big

• As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Government
  • Special
  • Will

• I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Think
  • Game
  • Same

• A lot of people don't like me.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • People
  • Me
  • Like

• I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Way
  • You
  • Same

• I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Charity

• You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Think
  • Today

• One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Man
  • Food
  • Perfect

• Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Reason
  • Absurd

• The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Home
  • American

• My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Belief
  • Race
  • Servant

• Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Good
  • Age
  • Forever

• Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Music
  • God
  • Country

• So he had locked her in the closet. Some of his people, ignorant and fearful, could not quite believe her illness was not contagious. Badger locked her away from them for her own safety. She had seen for herself how eager they were to get her out of their sight.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Believe
  • She

• Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • History
  • Control
  • Practice

• Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Christian
  • Prayer
  • Required

• Primordial feelings provide a direct experience of one’s own living body, wordless, unadorned, and connected to nothing but sheer existence. These primordial feelings reflect the current state of the body along varied dimensions, . . . along the scale that ranges from pleasure to pain, and they originate at the level of the brain stem rather than the cerebral cortex. All feelings of emotion are complex musical variations on primordial feelings.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Existence

• I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

  

  David Guetta
  • Up
  • Music

• Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • She
  • Mother
  • Passion

• Нет бессмертия души, так нет и добродетели, значит, всё позволено. … Без бога-то и без будущей жизни? Ведь это, стало быть, теперь всё позволено, всё можно делать?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky