Lizaveta K Quotes & Sayings

Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom. — Sai Baba

I could have done even better, miss, and I'd know a lot more, if it wasn't for my destiny ever since childhood. I'd have killed a man in a duel with a pistol for calling me low-born, because I came from Stinking Lizaveta without a father, and they were shoving that in my face in Moscow. It spread there thanks to Grigory Vasilievich. Grigory Vasilievich reproaches me for rebelling against my nativity: 'You opened her matrix,' he says. I don't know about her matrix, but I'd have let them kill me in the womb, so as not to come out into the world at all, miss. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

good books doing good thingsTM — Sulari Gentill

The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck. — Carl Safina

Islamic scholars developed a doctrine known as "abrogation" (an-Nasikh wa'l Mansukh), whereby Allah issues new revelations that supersede old ones. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy. — John Irving

These arrows are food, safety, and life itself now. — Suzanne Collins

Lizaveta was a dwarfish creature, "not five foot within a wee bit, — Anton Chekhov

Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder.
"Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply.
"Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. — Robert Breault

It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done, — Oscar Wilde