Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Just

• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Law

• When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.

  

  Edmund White
  • College
  • Always
  • Saying

• I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Business
  • Sweet

• The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Danger
  • Greatest
  • Stupidity

• I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • Rights
  • Stand

• If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Cricket

• There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Open

• You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • People
  • Know
  • Leader

• I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Ocean
  • Remind
  • Blossom

• When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Food
  • Understand

• Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Purpose

• You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Wish
  • Treat

• I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Song
  • Records

• It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Society
  • Change
  • Purpose

• I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Happy
  • Excited
  • Very Happy

• When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Disease
  • Close
  • Diagnosed

• And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Happiness
  • Genuine
  • Removed

• I don't like the idea of spirituality done the way it's done. The only way I could understand it was through creativity, not by going to an Ashram, or finding a guru or joining a temple. I made work out of it.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Work
  • Done
  • Creativity

• A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Boys
  • Sensitive
  • Humiliations

• The only way to get around Arizona is by small private plane.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Way
  • Planes
  • Arizona

• I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Consciousness
  • Disease
  • Genuine