Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Way
  • Play
  • Dreams

• By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Art
  • College

• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • College
  • Student
  • Tuition

• I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Mind
  • Childhood
  • Jazz

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

  

  Quintilian
  • Difficulty
  • Sloth
  • Pretext

• Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Realize
  • Other

• When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Mother
  • Focus
  • Decision

• If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • You
  • Dying

• From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Why
  • Universe
  • Dark

• I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • People
  • Family
  • Experience

• Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Up
  • World
  • Beautiful

• I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Dream
  • Entrepreneur
  • Chef

• If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Lost
  • Memory

• When you do a film, when you do a television show, eventually someone comes along and will say to you, 'Don't say that because, one, you will offend someone, or, two, no one will get that. Someone's going to be confused by that, not get the reference and feel abandoned, and then they will get angry at the entertainment.'

  

  Douglas Carter Beane
  • Angry
  • Confused

• In the story of Jesus I found ... a center for my being. Behind the supernatural framework of the first century, behind the language of myth, magic, and superstition, I discovered a life I wanted to know; a life that possessed a power I wanted to possess; a freedom, a wholeness for which I had yearned for years.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • Life
  • Power
  • Freedom

• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Skills
  • Producer
  • Using

• Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Freedom
  • Human Society
  • Insupportable