Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • River
  • Lake
  • Wilderness

• Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Good
  • Party

• I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Confidence
  • Opportunities

• I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Women
  • Happy

• It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Good
  • Family
  • Experience

• There's nothing more human than two people making love.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Love
  • For Her

• I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Structure
  • Interview
  • Mass

• Form follows beauty.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Beauty
  • Form
  • Follows

• We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

  

  Larry Page
  • Think
  • Best
  • Evil

• The world as a whole is full of problems and difficulties and it is most important that every country which loves its Freedom and wants to maintain its Independence and sovereignty should work for peace and try to see that there is disarmament in the world which alone will lead to real peace.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Service
  • Built

• All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Animal
  • Certain
  • Projects

• If this recommendation is accepted then a repeat of the unfortunate statements that came out of the 2004 internal elections, which brought the party into even higher levels of disrepute would be avoided.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Levels
  • Elections
  • Brought

• Be careful in your life, Tolui. I want you fit and strong for when I come for you.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Life
  • You
  • Strong

• To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.

  

  African Spir
  • Help
  • Evil
  • Morality

• We are the result of the stimulus we receive.

  

  Alfredo Jaar
  • Result
  • Receive
  • Stimulus

• Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Result
  • Laziness