Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Lived

• I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • City
  • Exercise
  • New

• Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Faith

• We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Game
  • Best
  • Football

• I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • World
  • Old
  • Jazz

• Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Team
  • Football
  • Win

• My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • History
  • Language

• I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Country
  • Business
  • America

• To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Why

• I don't know if my songs fit in films.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Know
  • Songs
  • Fit

• Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Tears
  • Guilt
  • Wash

• If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Walk
  • Comfortable
  • Awkward

• The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Way
  • Question
  • Start

• I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Great
  • Places
  • Modeling

• If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Doing
  • Misery
  • Don't Love

• The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Need
  • Consumption

• A good angel is only a dead angel.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Good
  • Dead
  • Angel

• No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knows
  • Fierce
  • Pity

• If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Human being

• The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Mother
  • Best
  • Cool

• When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Waiting
  • Attitude
  • Walking

• A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Human being
  • Beast
  • Cruel