Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

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• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Today
  • Understanding

• I like America. I don't want to hurt America.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • America
  • Want
  • Hurt

• One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Children
  • House
  • Democracy

• Under many current state laws, minors who have been victims of trafficking are charged as criminals and go to juvenile detention as offenders.

  

  Bill Flores

• As an actor, it's up to you to show that you can do something else. For me, the interesting actors don't always go where you expect to find them.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • Up
  • Interesting

• I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.

  

  David Cassidy
  • People

• I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Life

• The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Always
  • Feelings
  • Blues

• Even so does he who provides for the short time of this life, but takes no care for all eternity; which is to be wise for a moment, but a fool for ever; and to act as crossly to the reason of things as can be imagined; to regard time as if it were eternity, and to neglect eternity as if it were but a short time.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Moments
  • Forever
  • Care

• Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak of what happened. Such things have little to do with words, so little, in fact, that it seems almost pointless to try to express them. If anything, I would say that we were falling into each other, that we were falling so fast and so far that nothing could catch us.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Trying
  • Fall
  • Speak

• From the outback to the world.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • World
  • Outback

• The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Power
  • Precious
  • Possessions

• It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Means
  • Madness
  • Contradiction

• The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.

  

  Euripides
  • Mind
  • Remains
  • Vanish

• The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

  

  William James
  • Humans
  • Remains
  • Adolescence

• My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Write
  • Remains
  • Receive

• It's going to create additional costs for us to operate our terminals and that costs will translate into price increases across the community.

  

  Gary North
  • Costs
  • Additional
  • Creat

• How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Remains
  • Expresses
  • Intelligent Man