Nikolai Lanstov Quotes & Sayings

The Christian formula for the Trinity - God is one essence in three persons - may seem to be contradictory because we are accustomed to seeing one being as one person. We cannot conceive of how one being could be contained in three persons and still be only one being. To that extent, the doctrine of the Trinity in this formulation is mysterious; it boggles the mind to think of a being who is absolutely one in His essence yet three in person. — R.C. Sproul

And you," she spat in Nikolai's direction. "Go somewhere you're wanted."
"That's hardly limiting," he said. — Leigh Bardugo

Our gardening forebears meant watermelon to be the juicy, barefoot taste of a hot summer's end, just as a pumpkin is the trademark fruit of late October. Most of us accept the latter, and limit our jack-o'-latern activities to the proper botanical season. Waiting for a watermelon is harder. It's tempting to reach for melons, red peppers, tomatoes, and other late-summer delights before the summer even arrives. But it's actually possible to wait, celebrating each season when it comes, not fretting about its being absent at all other times because something else good is at hand. — Barbara Kingsolver

Thanks for the rescue."
"Everyone needs a hobby."
"I thought yours was preening."
"Two hobbies. — Leigh Bardugo

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account. — David Ogilvy

Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you. — Oprah Winfrey

In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive. — Krystal

There is only one time of absolute silence. Halfway between the dark of night and the light of morning, all animals and crickets and birds fall into a profound silence as if pressed quiet by the deep quality of the blackest time of night ... This silence is how I know it is not yet dawn, nor is it the middle of the night, but it is the place of no-time, when all things sleep most deeply, when their guard is dozing — Alexandra Fuller

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom. — Lance Loud

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name. — Shirley Jones

You'll still make a great king."
"Of course I will," he scoffed. "I'm melancholy, not daft. — Leigh Bardugo

Transformation of the intangible impulse, of desire, into the tangible reality, of money, calls for the use of a plan, or plans. These plans must be formed with the aid of the imagination, and mainly, with the synthetic faculty. Read — Napoleon Hill

The Lord God is my sacred safety. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is - not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be. — Robert A. Heinlein

We are all victims of war, and we all count. — Marla Ruzicka

He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off the flowers. — Mary Gaitskill

Being around Nikolai was always like this, watching him shift and change, revealing secrets as he went. He reminded me of the wooden nesting dolls I'd played with as a child. Except instead of getting smaller, he just kept getting grander and more mysterious. — Leigh Bardugo

I don't know how this interrogation found its way into my bed. May I ask where I can expect it to travel next? — C.S. Pacat

Lil Wayne is definitely the greatest youngest rapper alive. — Puff Daddy