Brothers Karamazov Smerdyakov Quotes & Sayings

Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end. — Astro Teller

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz. — Chris Barber

Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second. — Ann Coulter

Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties. — Marina Abramovic

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones. — Gro Harlem Brundtland

Ida tried not to sigh.
"What do you think of your husband?" he asked.
"He was rather short," Ida said without thinking. When Aubrey didn't respond, she thought that maybe she ought to elaborate and she said, "And beardy."
That was as much as she could remember of him in the midst of the chaotic events. He was short, bearded, quiet. But mostly short.
"He used to be an officer," Aubrey said.
"So I have been told," Ida tried, again, to keep the cheek from her voice though she was quite certain that she was failing.
"In the Varangian army," Aubrey continued.
She resisted the urge to comment on how she didn't care. — Carmen Dominique Taxer

I think if you asked people "what's the biggest problem in your life?" They'd say, "I just don't have time for anything!" And at our fingertips, if it isn't e-mail, it's our Blackberry, and it's our iPods and telephones - we never stop. We never take those moments to stop the stimulus to find out "what's going on in there? What's really happening?" And then things start to build up. And then we are almost afraid to slow down. — Elizabeth Lesser

As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely day,' and so on. — Lynne Truss

It does not matter how old you are. Recognize your calling and begin to work toward its fulfillment — Sunday Adelaja

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy. — Walter Russell

If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and a purpose, however depraved. Perhaps some good can even come out of evil: a terrible deed of violence against someone weaker may lead others to act in order to ensure that such a deed is not perpetrated again, whereas before they might have been unaware of the reasons why an individual might behave in such a way, or they might simply have chosen to ignore them. And evil, as we saw with the Blacksmith, always contains within itself the possibility of its own redemption. It is not evil that is the enemy of hope: it is nothingness. — John Connolly

Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop. — Alice Cooper

You're the inventor," Klaus answered, buttoning his coat. "But you can't invent things like time, — Lemony Snicket

When a label is throwing money at you, you have to recoup it. — Tony Palermo

Ninety percent of the time, the game is going to be decided in the final five minutes. When two teams are evenly matched, the better conditioned team will usually execute better when fatigue set sin, and will probably win. — John Wooden