Svobodno Quotes & Sayings

Formerly (it had begun almost from childhood and kept growing till full maturity), whenever he had tried to do something that would be good for everyone, for mankind, for Russia, for the district, for the whole village, he had noticed that thinking about it was pleasant, but the doing itself was always awkward, there was no full assurance that the thing was absolutely necessary, and the doing itself, which at the start had seemed so big, kept diminishing and diminishing, dwindling to nothing; while now, after his marriage, when he began to limit himself more and more to living for himself, though he no longer experienced any joy at the thought of what he was doing, he felt certain that his work was necessary, saw that it turned out much better than before and that it was expanding more and more. — Leo Tolstoy

Listen, Frank Zhang has moves. He's probably gonna turn into a kangaroo and do some marsupial jujitsu on their ugly faces. — Rick Riordan

You're not a realist unless you believe in miracles. — Anwar Sadat

Next time I ran into a terrorist I was going to put a death squeeze on his balls, stab him in the eye with a pencil, and then kill him. — Laurel Ulen Curtis

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that. — Tony Gilroy

Little Tony scratched his neck. "Don't forget he besmirched my name, Pop." Huh, how about that? Little Tony not only knew a big word, but had used it correctly. — Kristen Painter

What was that technique you were using on those bastards?"
"An ancient form called kicking ass. — Nora Roberts

I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts. — Jules Renard

As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food. — Michael Pollan

I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic. — Patrick DeWitt

Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move! — Margaret Cho

Music has always felt very real to me. — Joan Osborne

Leverage your uniqueness. — Bruce Tulgan