Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

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• By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

  

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• The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

  

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• Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.

  

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• You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

  

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• Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

  

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• I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.

  

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• I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

  

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• What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Collect
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• Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Food

• There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.

  

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• Sourav's greatest strength is his mind. He is hardworking - not only in the nets but also mentally. He bounces back.

  

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• You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up

• We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security.

  

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• For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

  

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• When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully

  

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• Guys wake up at your place and they expect breakfast. They don't eat bagels and M&M's in the morning. They want things like toast. I say, 'I don't have these recipes.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Up
  • Morning
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• I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season!

  

  Ian Holloway

• I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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  • Boys
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• Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

  

  Eriq La Salle
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• When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

  

  Epictetus
  • Hear
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  • Speaker

• I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one ends seeing nothing anymore. One ceases to be aware.

  

  Wanda Landowska
  • Hate
  • Practice
  • Seeing

• I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Conscious
  • Sickness
  • Gentlemen