Dostoyevskian Quotes & Sayings

The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut off critical funding, stopped the building of new infrastructure, dissolved powerful alliances and seeded America with doubt over our ability to free ourselves from petroleum. — Josh Tickell

He had never smoked but then had he ever loved? Life made him love and love made him smoke. — Faraaz Kazi

Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?" — Dennis Wholey

I had sold my soul for pleasure. — Judy Collins

Live as a stranger on the earth.
For this earth of ours is no planet. — Rasu-Yong Tugen

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates. — Scott Turow

The God Wars had not been a pleasant time for Craftsmen and Craftswomen around the world. One day, you're a simple thaumaturge, idly meddling in matters man was not meant to comprehend. The next, a collection of beings as old as humanity, with legions of followers, declare war on your "kind", and neighbours who once thought you a harmless eccentric with a fondness for mystic sigils and foul unguents see you as an affront to Creation. — Max Gladstone

- But what could you possibly see in her?
- Everything, I see everything in her, because the stardust that makes her is the same stardust that makes me. — Nikita Gill

God often attaches a major weakness to a major strength to keep our egos in check. A limitation can act as a governor to keep us from going too fast and running ahead of God. — Rick Warren

We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today. — Jim Rohn

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you. — Megan Whalen Turner

I now realize that I should blame myself when men indulge in such wildly wishful thinking that they see a sexual invitation in a simple smile. — David Lagercrantz