Nikolai Luzhin Quotes & Sayings

I still feel there is a case to be made for my old belief that as man approaches the 'new heaven and the new earth'
or the space-age universe, if you will, he must do so with humility rather than with arrogance. — Rachel Carson

as a guide and protection. Trust your divinity, trust your brain, — Timothy Leary

Life consists of nothing but exceptions. — Sergei Lukyanenko

The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history. — Winston Churchill

It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and economic structures a more equitable and solidaristic configuration. — Pope Benedict XVI

I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be. — Jennifer Jason Leigh

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. — Heraclitus

To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless. — Deepak Chopra

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me. — Oscar Wilde

we're constantly looking for ways to help each other's lives get lighter, easier to carry, closer to the heart of what we love, less clogged with expectations and unnecessary tasks. — Shauna Niequist

On Dec. 10, 2000, I learned I was free of cancer. — Marissa Jaret Winokur

The way people age is not the way people age ... everyone is draining everyone! — Frederick Lenz

Admitting your fears to yourself is the first step in cleansing them from your body. And it's the hardest part. — Brenda Rothert

not really a scholar, not trained to be a university professor. The level of the university had dropped considerably, compared to what I experienced before, in two years of studies. Yet, we had a difficult time with the two new languages and also a course in military preparedness. All the students, men and women, had to learn military tactics and had to train in the fields, to become efficient shots. The training was done out-of-doors, in rain, snow or sleet. At every session, one was given three bullets. If you did not achieve a good score, you got a low grade. Fear of losing the scholarship made me try very hard and I lay so long on the frozen ground or soggy field, in order to do it right. In the end, in May 1941, I got very sick with pleurisy and just barely made it through the exams in June 1941, that fateful month when the Germans attacked. — Pearl Fichman

I think of myself as a film composer. — John Williams