Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Quotes to Explore
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham -
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
Magnus Magnusson -
Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson -
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
Madeleine Albright -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
Karen Maitland -
I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
Manish Dayal -
I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
Francia Raisa -
I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
Vikram Seth -
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
Halima Aden -
Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
Abby Wambach
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
Samantha Bond -
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
Victoria Jackson -
I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
Paige VanZant -
One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
Yael Stone -
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Samuel Butler -
A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
Mal Peet
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I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.
Dakota Fanning -
When you do one movie at a time, if one goes crazy and becomes successful, your life changes. But you can step back and catch your breath.
Chris Evans -
Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
Ed Asner -
I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.
Picabo Street -
People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.
Len Wein -
Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.
Fyodor Dostoevsky