Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.
Quotes to Explore
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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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.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
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Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
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The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.
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If wishes were stories, beggars would read...
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I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.
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I know no diplomacy save that of truth.
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He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.
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I do not like toll roads. Taxpayers are already paying for those roads through their gas taxes, and then to turn around and tell them they need to pay more to drive on the roads, I don't like it.
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But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.
