Mikhail Lermontov Quotes

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

Mikhail Lermontov

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• If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Different
  • Long
  • Man

• One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Good
  • Reason

• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Country
  • Better

• I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Strong

• Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Up
  • You
  • Acting

• We are worried about pressure being put on inspectors by certain circles in Washington

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Pressure
  • Worried
  • Washington

• But he is pretty. God, I hope he's not an asshole. Do you think there's any chance he's both non-orifice and single? I mean, seriously. What are the chances?

  

  Laini Taylor
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

  

  Anita Loos
  • World
  • Alone
  • Star

• The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.

  

  Umar
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Easier

• Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Character
  • Experience

• I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.

  

  Eli Manning
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

  

  Marco Polo
  • Person
  • Victim
  • Muslim

• Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Sun

• Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Grief
  • Characters

• The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Power
  • Exercise
  • President

• My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Country
  • College
  • Football

• I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Criticism
  • Hating

• It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Want
  • Running
  • Twice

• The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Help
  • Science
  • Powerful

• One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Despair
  • Criminal
  • Twice