Brothers Karamazov The Grand Inquisitor Quotes & Sayings

What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love. — Patrick J. Adams

Think of the cold Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov, or the monk who tries to eliminate all humor in The Name of the Rose, or the frowning Koran burners of Florida. Holier-than-thou people usually end up holier than nobody. — Richard Rohr

Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people. — Erwin McManus

I doubted it. Some people say trying is all that matters, but unfortunately it's only the first step. Sometimes you're got to catch a break and win one, too. You've got to stand up on the bar and do the antler dance. Plus, as I now knew as well as anyone, people really suck at consoling themselves. — James Patterson

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. — Barbara Walters

Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity. — Santosh Kalwar

It's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind. — John Fowles

The truly great books are flawed: The Brothers Karamazov is unwieldy in structure; a present-day editor would probably want to cut the Grand Inquisitor scene because it isn't necessary to the plot. For me The Brothers Karamazov is one of the greatest novels ever written, and this is perhaps because of, rather than in spite of, its human faults. — Madeleine L'Engle

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer. — Eve Arnold

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. — William James

And the cameras came and went, stealing pieces of our lives to entertain the people. — Kiera Cass

But now there are more concussions due to not being used to the hard hitting. — Jim Otto

Seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me. — Chuck Palahniuk

Everywhere a greater joy is preceded by a greater suffering, — Philip Yancey

Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't ... But I must live my life. — Thomas Hearns