Pyotr Petrovitch Quotes & Sayings

Good men can make terrible kings,' Tindwyl noted.
'But bad men cannot make good kings.' Sazed said. 'It is better to start with a good man and work on the rest, I think. — Brandon Sanderson

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them? — Horace

Pyotr Petrovitch stole a glance at Raskolnikov. Their eyes met, and the fire in Raskolnikov's seemed ready to reduce him to ashes — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I felt his pain as an extra pressure on myself. I mentally added his pain to mine, made it part of my own. — V.S. Naipaul

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences. — Susanne Katherina Langer

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again. — A.E. Van Vogt

And the beat goes on... — Sonny Bono

Catch several hares and you won't catch one. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me. — Paul Watson

If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else. — Saul Williams

Change of any sort requires courage. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that. — John McEnroe

Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting. — Nicole Richie