Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya Quotes & Sayings

That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself. — Mark Goldblatt

I didn't understand NASCAR until I met some NASCAR fans. You talk to a couple of NASCAR fans and you'll see where a shiny car driving in a circle would fascinate them all day. And I can make fun of NASCAR fans, because if they chase me, I just turn right. — Alonzo Bodden

Repenting is a gift God gives us for our own sake, not his. — John Ortberg

Always, as a child, I would go around the house, and if I found a word that I didn't know the meaning of, I would write it down and ask my parents to define it and try to memorise it. — Alexandra Adornetto

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Fiction is my home, I came from fiction, I like to tell stories. — Fatih Akin

They want the centurions not so much to be venturesome and daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be ready to die at their posts. — Polybius

To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity. The — Hannah Arendt

That's Russian bureaucracy for you," says Kirill. "Talking to them, it is like - kak serpom po yaytsam."
"What did you say?" I ask.
"Like a sickle to the balls," says Kirill grimly.
I wince at the vivid imagery. Russians and their idioms.
"It means this is a bad situation," Kirill explains.
"I got that from the context clues, thanks. — Maria Malonzo

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors. — George Schaller

Give yourself freedom to try out new things
Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow. — Paulo Coelho