Nevsky Russia Quotes & Sayings

But, along with the street lamp, everything breathes deceit. It lies all the time, this Nevsky Prospect, but most of all at the time when night heaves its dense mass upon it and sets off the white and pale yellow walls of the houses, when the whole city turns into a rumbling and brilliance, myriads of carriages tumble from the bridges, postillions shout and bounce on their horses, and the devil himself lights the lamps only so as to show everything not as it really looks. — Nikolai Gogol

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else. — Craig Ferguson

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution. — Aristotle.

Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication can do. — Eben Pagan

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice. — Benny Goodman

One master those arts for health in mind and body, for the ability to live one's life as courageously, uniquely, and energetically as one wishes! — Akira Toriyama

(mother) She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air. — Emily Giffin

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end? — Elie Wiesel

Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience. — Jeff Shaara

Magic
that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic. — Robert Bloch

Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority? — Scott Westerfeld