Adelaida Quotes

#1. Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder.
"Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply.
"Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. In the same way, the action Adelaida Ivanovna Miusov was doubtless an echo of foreign influences, the chafings of a mind imprisoned

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. Alexandra, my eldest, here, plays the piano, or reads or sews; Adelaida paints landscapes and portraits (but never finishes any); and Aglaya sits and does nothing. I don't work too much, either.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. One cannot proclaim words of love if the heart has yet to be awoken.

Raneem Kayyali

#5. Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence

Unknown

#6. But the landlady is a fat, ugly, mean, stupid, unwashed, misanthropic, cheap, drunken bag of garbage. And you may have noticed that I very seldom use profanity, so I can't describe her as well as I might.

Edward Albee

#7. In the dark, all cats are gray . . . and to the blind, they're no color at all.

Stephen King

#8. To the world you may be just one person, but to the one person you may be the world. - Mother Theresa

Aleatha Romig

#9. Love is waiting for you, but you might need to wait until tomorrow.

Marlene Thornton

#10. The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.

Robert Paul Weston

#12. Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

Tony Blair

#13. Mairi was searching for her lost wolf. Ronan shook with a bitter chuckle. Little did the woman know, her lost wolf searched for her.

Maeve Greyson

#14. I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

Jenna Dewan

#15. It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

Julia Ward Howe