Boris Pasternak Quotes

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Boris Pasternak

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• I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Independent
  • Security
  • Independence

• You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Great
  • Movie

• Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Want
  • Comedy

• I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Know
  • Language
  • Civilization

• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Violence

• Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Perfect
  • Years
  • Hours

• I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • You
  • Appreciate

• Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Truth

• The mind is just another muscle.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mind
  • Just
  • Another

• You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Tough
  • Waves
  • Never Forget

• I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Real
  • School
  • Change

• I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Television
  • Unknown
  • Canada

• For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Explaining
  • Theologians

• A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Taken
  • Dying

• You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.

  

  Edith Head
  • Life
  • Want
  • Dress

• 'I assure you, paladin king, that if I had a sword in hand, I would willingly cut out your heart, here and now. If you expect me to beg look elsewhere. The fool monk can bring me to my knees, but if I am not there of my own choosing, then calling it begging would ring as hollow as does your crown, yes?' -Artemis Entreri

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Heart
  • Hand
  • King

• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

  

  Annabelle Selldorf
  • Interesting
  • Quality
  • Architecture

• Everywhere you went, you left something behind. Maybe someday he would come back and get it.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Comeback
  • Went

• All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

  

  Nick Hornby
  • Books
  • Read
  • Expression

• That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

  

  Boris Pasternak