Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski Quotes & Sayings

People who record birdsong generally do it very early
before six o'clock
if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud. — Richard Adams

I am afraid that she is a coquette, for she is always flirting with the wind. — Oscar Wilde

I will not attempt to describe Gin-Rummy in detail as you can call up any insane asylum and get any patient on the 'phone and learn all about it in no time, as all lunatics are bound to be Gin players, and in fact the chances are it is Gin-Rummy that makes them lunatics. Damon Runyon, The Lacework Kid — David Parlett

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings. — David Foreman

Fearing the future & worrying about repeating the past will always rob one of the present moment. — Timothy Pina

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska

Men cannot progress if they are carried like
leaves on a stream. People need to be able to waste time, make time, lose time, and buy
time. — Terry Pratchett

I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same. — Mildred D. Taylor

In my deepest contacts with individuals in therapy, even those whose troubles are most disturbing, whose behavior has been most anti-social, whose feelings seem most abnormal, I find this to be true. When I can sensitively understand the feelings which they are expressing, when I am able to accept them as separate persons in their own right, then I find that they tend to move in certain directions. And what are these directions in which they tend to move? The words which I believe are most truly descriptive are words such as positive, constructive, moving toward self-actualization, growing toward maturity, growing toward socialization. — Carl R. Rogers

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless. — Aristophanes

But now he could rest. Now he'd arrived, in Jamie's arms, now he was home at last. — Brad Vance

I'm glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I've read. — Alberto Caeiro