Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Time
  • God
  • Parents

• I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Music
  • Think
  • Listening

• The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • People
  • Life
  • Beauty

• Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Winter
  • Preparation
  • Recovery

• The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

  

  David Eagleman
  • Alien
  • Pink
  • Consistency

• I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

  

  Aubrey Plaza
  • Good
  • Business
  • Job

• It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening.

  

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Good
  • Listening

• I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.

  

  Emilie Autumn Liddell
  • Work
  • Done

• With fiction, I've grown to really love the challenge of lying, the challenge of telling a good tale that isn't truthful, and working with performers is endlessly fascinating. You know, learning what a good performance is, how to get a good performance, how much or how little you need to create emotion or to create character.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • Good
  • Character
  • Learning

• No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

  

  Peter Baynham
  • Comedy

• Disrespect is real stuff.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Real
  • Stuff
  • Disrespect

• It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • God
  • Men
  • True

• It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Pretty
  • Enough
  • Crosses

• I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Understanding

• Love is something that never goes out of style.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Style
  • Love Is

• We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Opposites
  • Hunters

• I could experience vulnerability if I just constantly gave myself away without ever taking time out once a day or a couple times a day or whatever it is I need to restore, whether it's more sleep, or whether it's going to see a movie or writing something new.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Experience

• The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Want
  • Battle
  • Ifs

• I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Time
  • Afraid

• To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is actual and observable.... It must involve throughout a resolute rejection of the demand for an explanation of the regularities in the observable course of nature, by means of truths concerning a reality beyond what is actual and observable, as a demand which plays no role in the scientific enterprise.

  

  Bastiaan van Fraassen
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Search

• The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Chance
  • Trouble
  • Devil

• The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Opinion
  • Best Way
  • Obeyed

• The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Prisoner
  • Best Way
  • Escaping