Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

  

  J. Tillman
  • People
  • Up
  • Eyes

• Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • Kids
  • Right

• There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Good
  • Old
  • Days

• Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Life
  • Rebel

• I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Canvas

• We go to movies to be taken away to another place, to be dazzled, to dream, to hopefully be filled with wonder. The design of the world and the look of the film is all in service of trying to create that feeling of wonder in the audience.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.

  

  Avicii
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.

  

  Lily Donaldson
  • Black

• I've got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn't have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.

  

  Jane Kaczmarek
  • Great
  • Women
  • Friends

• As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • People
  • Dog
  • Fate

• Kids are pretty brutal.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.

  

  Darrell Royal
  • Space

• It was an agreement between (former Iraqi president) Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran (ousted in 1979) and not between Iraq and Iran.

  

  Jalal Talabani

• I'm not going to be murdered," Harry said out loud. "That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Spirit
  • Mirror
  • Mirrors

• If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Discovered
  • Humankind
  • Circulation Of The Blood

• I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Wonder
  • Destiny
  • Weapons

• Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6 and 8 hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain's alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between 6 and 8 hertz. Thus, our entire biological system - the brain and the earth itself - work on the same frequencies. If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of humankind.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Humankind
  • Human Brain
  • Resonates

• We live in a society that is based on 30-second sound bites. We have technology that puts all of the information of humankind at our fingertips, but we have the attention span of a three-year-old at a carnival midway on the Fourth of July. We throw around a lot of words like democracy, federal, republic, nationalist, socialist, liberal, and right-wing—but do we really know what they mean?

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Society
  • Technology
  • Democracy

• Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Formula
  • Humankind
  • Own Way