Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • War
  • Fighting

• I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.

  

  K. Flay
  • Myself
  • Sometimes
  • Care

• I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Care
  • Worry
  • Ordinary

• This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • American
  • Together

• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Idea
  • Intelligent
  • Acceptance

• I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Study

• When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

  

  Morna Anne Murray
  • Heart
  • Young
  • Youth

• When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. So, to sum it up, it seems that whenever we take a couple of steps forward, we take a few more backwards.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Up
  • Women
  • Girl

• Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Ideas
  • Forever
  • Used

• A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Done
  • Giving
  • Kind

• You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Smoking
  • Quitting
  • Too Late

• It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Trying
  • High
  • Game

• You're kidding, right?" Ezra barked. "We're not just going to wait." "I suppose we could help people clean up a bit," "Girl!" Ezra called out. "Big eyes!" Winter turned from what she was looking at. "Are you talking to me?

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Truth
  • Lying
  • Succeed

• The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Purpose
  • Course
  • Enhancement

• Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, "I'm the writer."

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Decision
  • Scene
  • Dialogue

• I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Spiritual
  • Prayer
  • I Think

• The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping.

  

  Sophocles
  • Eyes
  • Sleep
  • Sick Man

• I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • I Think
  • Hurts
  • Sick Man