Fiodora Quotes & Sayings

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul. — Rumi

To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things. — Isaac Asimov

Our dad hugged us and kissed us so much that some friends and relatives complained that he was going to turn us into sissies or homosexuals. But my dad didn't care. Let them raise their kids in a reserved and reticent way. He grew up in Israel, and his boys were going to be hugged and kissed by their father and know they were loved. — Ezekiel Emanuel

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed! — Karl Lagerfeld

On 11 September 2012 crowds of friendly locals in Kabul, Afghanistan, were chanting the usual 'Death to America' slogans. At the same time American flags were torched from London to Sydney. And in Benghazi, Libya, a group of 'spontaneous protesters' arrived at the US consulate with rocket-propelled grenades and savagely murdered the US ambassador. In Washington, members of the Obama administration were, as we have already seen, showing that they weren't taking any of this personally. It wasn't about them and it certainly wasn't about their ambassador, who had in fact been murdered by terrorists in a pre-planned attack. The administration was still claiming all this was caused by an excerpt from an amateur film which had been up on YouTube for weeks. — Douglas Murray

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story. — Stephen King

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent. — Freida Pinto

It seemed she would not be able to ignore her duty; it had just arrived. — Monica McCarty

Women have to be careful and teach their girls to be aware of their surroundings and never be alone with testosterone-crazed boys. A lot of little lives are being ruined and our society is to blame. Our kids are just searching and being curious but they are dangerously looking for the wrong kind of attention. — Pamela Anderson

I rubbed my face with my hands. "Oh, God, what are You getting us into?"

Olivia chuckled. "That's an interesting way to put it. But I think sometimes the Lord puts us into impossible situations - or lets us get into them ourselves - just so He can show His might and power as He pulls us out. — Annie Riley

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. — Robert H. Schuller

First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago. — Carl Wilson

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny — George Washington