Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

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• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Today
  • Regret

• Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • First
  • Stress

• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Deep
  • Queen
  • Purple

• For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Long
  • Live
  • Experience

• In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Woman
  • Teacher
  • Doctor

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • World
  • Humanitarian
  • Activist

• I study history in order to give an interpretation.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Study
  • Give

• I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Health

• 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Believe
  • Impossible
  • Say

• I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • World
  • Why
  • Feeling

• You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • You
  • Funny
  • Explore

• The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up

• She said'I'm young enoughI'm old enoughIn the city machineWhere industriesFill the fish full of mercury'

  

  Laura Nyro
  • She
  • City

• To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Breakfast

• Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame, The fire of love supplies; While that which often bears the name, Is self in a disguise. True zeal is merciful and mild, Can pity and forbear; The false is headstrong, fierce and wild, And breathes revenge and war.

  

  John Newton
  • War
  • True
  • Fire

• No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Brain

• If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

  

  Peter Medawar
  • Art

• Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Devil
  • Numbers
  • Majority

• In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Today
  • Devil
  • Blame

• I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Devil