Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah -
The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
Edmund Morgan -
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert -
Robots are good at things that are structured.
Vijay Kumar -
You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
Rand Paul -
I believe in the free enterprise system.
Ralph Norman
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
Ted Deutch -
In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
Wale -
My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Karl Shapiro -
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
Dan Stevens -
As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
Natalie Gulbis -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
Taylor Momsen -
People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
Ian Rush -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
FKA twigs -
Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
Adam Hamilton -
I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
Damian Lewis
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I don't understand what people are talking about in different rhymes glorifying jail. If you like going to bed early, getting yelled at, seeing a fight, seeing somebody getting their head split open, or fighting over the TV then that's the place for you.
Derek Murphy -
Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
Walter Raleigh -
The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
Imtiaz Ali -
The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.
Fyodor Dostoevsky