Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

  

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• I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

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• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

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• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

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• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

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• I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

  

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• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

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• Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.

  

  Adam McKay
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• I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Karen Handel
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• I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.

  

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• The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
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• In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

  

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• Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.

  

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• I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.

  

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• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
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• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

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• Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

  

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• Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae love of ones country is both a moral duty and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present but of future generations. This virtue we find constitutes a part of the first characters of history.

  

  Benjamin Rush
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• Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'

  

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• Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs seldom do. When a stock or mutual fund is up 30%, sell one-quarter of your position.

  

  Nancy Dunnan
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• If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are the makers of such things.

  

  Odo of Cluny
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• Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Faith
  • Miracle
  • Believes