Shestov Dostoevsky Quotes & Sayings

Life is a one-way street and you're not coming back. — Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data. — Elizabeth Holmes

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority. — Lord Acton

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through. — Jack Kirby

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think. — Maya Angelou

Look at all the magazines: There's always 10 ways to be better at something. — Brooke Elliott

Whether I am believed or not, I will repeat that Vladimir Soloviov, who held that Dostoevsky was a prophet, is wrong, and that N. K. Mikhailovsky, who calls him a cruel talent and a grubber after buried treasure, is right. Dostoevsky grubs after buried treasure no doubt about that. And, therefore, it would be more becoming in the younger generation that still marches under the flag of pious idealism if, instead of choosing him as a spiritual leader, they avoided the old sorcerer, in whom only those gifted with great shortsightedness or lack of experience in life could fail to see the dangerous man. — Lev Shestov

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible. — Lev Shestov

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me. — Darcey Bussell

Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence. — Lev Shestov

How hard something is often depends on your vantage point. — Lysa TerKeurst

But television affords you, what you just described, to - over the course of 18 hours, now that we're doing a third season - tell the story of this man. You're not under any obligation, really, to do massive expositional stuff at the beginning. You're at liberty to say, "Come with us on this journey," and, gradually, you become aware of what his motivations are, what drives him, what his weaknesses are, what his strengths are. That's what I think's sucking people into these worlds, because it is kind of like a novel, you just go really, really deep. — Cillian Murphy

I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months. — Peter Scott

Lots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth. — Michael Ende

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember — Jimmy Hoffa

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction. — Lev Shestov

I struggle to discover what these silent sons of mine want, but words have always failed me. They are sullen even as they tell me they are okay. I know they are lying but there is nothing I can do. — Jinat Rehana Begum

Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor. — Lev Shestov

If you don't get in them and rev them up every now and then, they turn in to cranky old bitches who refuse to do a damn thing for you.
Connerism from Quinn's Need — S.J.D. Peterson