Turgenev Short Quotes & Sayings

Mother made sure her little kids were subjected to a strict routine. We were given a timetable which covered our every waking moment, copies of which were posted by our bedside, in the sitting room and in the kitchen. Story hour meant that mother would read us novels and short stories by Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde and Edmondo de Amicis. Soon we graduated to Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev. She read them to us in Chinese and I never realised until much later that the writers wrote them in different European languages. Comics were absolutely forbidden and so were Enid Blyton adventures and pop music ... Lee Cyn and I soon went to a primary school nearby ... After mother's rigorous timetable, school became fun and easy-going. — Ang Swee Chai

You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect. — Michael Nutter

There was an extravagant winter storm outside. The tinfoil sky flashed beyond the window, rattling in the frame, and once or twice a white fork like a vein. Through the opposite window, which looked out onto the other side of the house, the light was pale, picking out where the wall was still broken from the last big storm, with the scorched telegraph pole and the burnt tree. — Olivia Sudjic

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself. — James Taylor

I am no longer my own, but Thine. Put me to what Thou wilt, rank me with whom Thou wilt; put me to doing, put me to suffering; let me be employed for Thee or laid aside for Thee, exalted for Thee or brought low for Thee; let me be full, let me be empty; let me have all things, let me have nothing; I freely and heartily yield all things to Thy pleasure and disposal.

And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Thou art mine, and I am Thine. So be it. And the covenant, which I have made on earth, let it be ratified in heaven. Amen. — Methodist Church

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent. — Rudy Giuliani

Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred. — Katrina Kenison

Your Ideas Are Your Biggest Assets Although — Dustyn Roberts

The two of us, we're the best kind of disaster. Apples and oranges. Well, more like apples and machetes. — Brittany Cavallaro

Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing. — Matsuo Basho

The cross of Jesus Christ represents the intersection of God's love and God's holiness. — Robert Jeffress

In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph. — Joseph Brodsky

Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded. — Nelson Algren