Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Together
  • Struggle
  • Feel

• Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • Friends
  • War

• Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Up
  • Day
  • Amazing

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • War
  • Help
  • Better

• I've never been specifically attached to westerns, but there are those I like - one of the best westerns I've seen is 'Unforgiven.' I think the genre has something extremely powerful that can allow them to talk about good and evil in a very straight way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Good
  • Best
  • Powerful

• I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Thinking
  • Attitude
  • Box

• I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Dad
  • Star
  • Child

• I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Music
  • Different
  • Fun

• I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Work
  • Long
  • Know

• I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Doing

• Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Film
  • Years
  • Photography

• I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

  

  L. Frank Baum

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Future

• The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Life
  • Commitment

• I ask myself why do these worshipers of this God want to convict him of being such a crummy designer - most of his creations die off, the rest suffer miserably; of being cruel and capricious and bungling and incompetent and callous as a father? www.youtube.com/watch?v=THHapkLeSGo?t=24m23s

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • God
  • Why
  • Father

• I'd love to work with Cher Lloyd; that would be my dream person to work with.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Work
  • Dream

• Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Money

• A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack gospel music, but I'm not leading a crusade against it. Of course, the vices of hip-hop are far more influential, I understand. But the good that hip-hop transmits, the power of the culture to rally the best of our protest, and uplift, and resistance, traditions, is often unfairly overlooked.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Culture
  • Tradition
  • Uplifting

• From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.

  

  Johnny Mercer
  • Night

• A bad memory is the mother of invention.

  

  Gerald Brenan
  • Mother
  • Memory
  • Invention

• It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky