Dostoievski Quotes & Sayings

She needed the good mood, the way you need sleep after an all-nighter, the way you daydream of throwing yourself into bed. — Gillian Flynn

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. — Honore De Balzac

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke. — Plato

Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere. — Bob Dylan

There are ... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski. — James R Newman

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he was a genius. And Einstein, not me. — Ray Charles

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. — William Godwin

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that ... we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and ... preposterous. — Bono

The night I sat down to read Dostoievski for the first time was a most important event in my life, even more important than my first love. It was the first deliberate, conscious act which had significance for me; it changed the whole face of the world. Whether it is true that the clock stopped that moment when I looked up after the first deep gulp I don't know any more. But the world stopped dead for a moment, that I know. It was my first glimpse into the soul of a man, or shall I say simply that Dostoievski was the first man to reveal his soul to me?"

Henry Miller — Henry Miller Shreve

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay. — Confucius

Its better to wear out than to rust out. — Richard Cumberland

Penn was beginning to darkly conclude that this place had more laws that Ica. — B.J. Ranson

Hey, Ocean Eyes," my father said. "Where'd you go on us? — Alice Sebold