Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions.

Ehud Olmert
- Emotions
- Israel
- Tend
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

August Strindberg
- Consumers
- Flame
- Peak
Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?

Betty Smith
- Bad
- Mother
- Wife
As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him.

R. C. Sproul, Jr.
- Light
- Mean
- Christian
One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

Henry Ward Beecher
Strength of our culture to some extent has compensated the lack of formal education. That is how people could vote wisely in these massive elections. After all, it was the ordinary, illiterate people who exercised the votes in the general elections we have had. And they seem to have voted with sufficient knowledge of affairs, of their interests, and this is remarkable indeed. But that is no substitute for education, and we have to have a full formal education for all our people and what I find sad is that it is an eminently practicable thing to do; in a matter of 5 years, India could be made literate.

K. R. Narayanan