Oblomov Film Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them. — Stendhal

Normal is whatever you have come to take for granted. — David Mitchell

Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions. — Baron De Montesquieu

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work. — Jean-Paul Sartre

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region. — David Malouf

Rudeness, I think, is the worst. — Erin Heatherton

There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish some respect in our discourse. And that is to show there is a real price to pay for being a disrespectful partisan idiot. — Mark McKinnon

I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn't getting it and I couldn't understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn't let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off. — Meaghan Rath

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall. — Ernest Renan

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste. — George Perkins Marsh

This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist. — Alexander Hamilton