Tolstoj Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would. — Nelson Mandela

If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many. — Rory Stewart

The key word in Acts 1:3 is alive. Jesus showed Himself alive. Here are some of the infallible proofs He showed to verify His resurrection. — Ralph V. Reynolds

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time. — E.L. Doctorow

The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. He has no awares of himself or of others as private subjectives, nor does he suspect that all of us, himself included, are limited to one certain point of view of the world. That is why he subjects neither his thoughts, in which he believes as they present themselves, to any sort of criticism. He has no knowledge of points of view. For him men are empty heads turned towards one single, self-evident world where everything takes place, even dreams, which are, he thinks, in his room, and even thinking, since it is not distinct from words. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media. — William Safire

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles. — Rumi

Profits are related to customer retention. Customer retention is related to employee retention. Employee retention may or may not be related to benefits, but benefits could be part of the package that causes people to stay and
by the way
engage in discretionary effort.. If you go into any organization that's customer-facing, you can tell in five minutes when the employees are feeling abused. They retaliate on the customers. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that. — Tom Stoppard

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people. — Cynthia Kenyon

The only advantage of knowledge is that it can justify suffering. — Sorin Cerin

I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs. — T-Pain

Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk. — Ron Franscell

They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and
hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live by
their ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I'm a cat that hit
its nose. — Umberto Eco

Some can be happy. — George Eliot