Fyodor Dostoevsky Greatest Quotes & Sayings

Hillary Clinton has her own issues with just her own arrogance as a leader; that has been well known for a long time. — James Lankford

People really understand very little of one another. Sometimes when I speak to him, my Cid looks very hard and straight into my face as if in search of something (a city on a map?) like someone who has tumbled off a star. But he's not the one who feels alien - ever, I think. He lives in a small country of hope, which is his heart. Like Sokrates he fails to understand why travel should be such a challenge to the muscles of the heart, for other people. Around every bend of the road is a city of gold, isn't it?
I am the kind of person who thinks no, probably not. And we walk, side by side, in different countries. — Anne Carson

The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent. — Al Swearengen

It's the little things that make up your life. The bigger events just connect them. — S.L. Scott

Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today. — Evan Wolfson

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. — Reinhold Niebuhr

The mind usually says, "I know, I know, I know." But the "don't-know mind" is where wisdom lives. — Byron Katie

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. — Mahatma Gandhi

A watch manufacturer in New York tried out two series of watch advertisements; one argued the superior construction, workmanship, durability, and guarantee offered with the watch; the other was headed, "A Watch to be Proud of," and dwelt upon the pleasure and pride of ownership. The latter series sold twice as many as the former. A salesman for a locomotive works informed the writer that in selling railroad engines emotional appeal was stronger than an argument based on mechanical excellence. — J. Berg Esenwein

I've gotten a lot of exposure for my writing. My writing blog has gotten over 1000 unique hits since the Observer piece (quite a lot as before it was something like 20 people a day if I was lucky.) But more importantly the coverage exposed me to and so has allowed me to connect with a lot of new people I really enjoy interacting with. — Marie Calloway

Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good. — Frederick Lenz

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. — Robert South

Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life? — Sheryl Sandberg

And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity.
The Adolescent (or, The Raw Youth) — Fyodor Dostoyevsky