Dvoretsky Konstantin Quotes & Sayings

Piety is good manner, and sin is that which creates doubt and you do not like people to know of it. — Muhammad Bin Abdullah

That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure - the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! [from the preface; on writing for people around the world] — Alexander McCall Smith

Ove has been a grumpy old man since the first day of second grade — Fredrik Backman

In handling men, your own feelings are the only ones that are of no importance. I don't mean by this that you want to sacrifice your self-respect, but you must keep in mind that the bigger the position the broader the man must be to fill it. And a diet of courtesy and consideration gives girth to a boss. — George Horace Lorimer

Well we want to know... If you want to become part of the family."
"... Kinda thought I already was. — Michael Oher

There's a long history of resistance movements igniting in the soccer stadium. In the Red Star Revolution, Draza, Krle, and the other Belgrade soccer hooligans helped topple Slobodan Milosevic. Celebrations for Romania's 1990 WOrld Cup qualification carried over into the Bucharest squares, culminating in a firing squad that trained its rifles on the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife. The movement that toppled the Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner had the same sportive ground zero. — Franklin Foer

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude. — Joseph Addison

I've been robbed once already. I won't let it happen again. It's only my cat they managed to kill twice. No-one will ever again steal my belongings, or my peace of mind. — Magda Szabo

As an angler and a gardener, I cherish each drop of rain that falls. — Fennel Hudson

Don't look for comfortable plays. Look for strong plays. Have balls. — R. Dobias

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it. — Matthew Henry