Tientietnikov Quotes & Sayings

I knew our night at the grocery store apparently meant much more to me than him. — Abbi Glines

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy. — Jodie Foster

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality. — Karl Lagerfeld

Gradually, therefore, Tientietnikov grew more at home in the Service. Yet never did it become, for him, the main pursuit, the main object in life, which he had expected. No, it remained but one of a secondary kind. That is to say, it served merely to divide up his time, and enable him the more to value his hours of leisure. — Nikolai Gogol

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power. — Clive James

Let us not look for a gold mine or oil wells in the ground. Your mind has it all. You just have to find it. If you don't believe me, then just remember Steve Jobs. — Debasish Mridha

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way. — Stendhal

The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little. When the believer speaks, it is with wisdom, when he is silent, it is in deep thought, when he sees, he takes lessons, and when he acts, it is a cure. If this is the way you are, then you are in the constant worship [of your Lord.] — Abu Nuaym

I felt like he was hiding so much, that I wasn't even seeing the real Garret at all, and the more I hung out with him, the more I would learn.
Also being with him did strange, twisty things to my insides. My dragon instincts did not approve; they still didn't like this human with his amazing reflexes and bright, intense eyes. The eyes of a predator. But there was another part of me that just couldn't resist. — Julie Kagawa