Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

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• Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Blood
  • Vampire
  • Imperialism

• My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Day

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Why
  • Friend
  • Best

• By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Wisdom

• Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • True
  • Earth
  • Know

• I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Live
  • Born
  • Name

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Teach
  • Go
  • University

• Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Done
  • Never
  • Doubts

• If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • You
  • Let Go

• If you're not acting, you're not an actor.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • You
  • Acting
  • Actor

• I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • May
  • Stop
  • Years

• I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Like
  • Two

• Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Easy

• I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Favorite
  • Eat
  • Meal

• The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Good
  • Perfect

• We've been touring for so long and people ask me every once in a while, "What's it like working with your brothers?" and I go, "What's it like not?" Our first paying performance, I was 6 years old, you know? I almost don't know anything else, so I guess it feels pretty normal to me.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Long
  • Pretty

• The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Activity
  • Cessation
  • Sanyasa

• Oh please...As a standup, I tried to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Not necessarily in that order.

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Up
  • World
  • Girl

• Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • World
  • Law
  • Evil