Anna Karenina Count Vronsky Quotes

#1. A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Hofstadter

#2. A priest's life is spent between question and answer
or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

Naguib Mahfouz

#3. He frowned again. Don't you like this ... being with me? Even ... just a little?

S.C. Stephens

#4. There is, I came to realize, what the mind wants and what the body wants. The mind can excite the body, but its desires can also be false; whereas the body, the animal, wants what it wants.

Claire Messud

#5. I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

Quentin Bryce

#6. How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Daniel Webster

#7. I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.

Diane Lane

#8. Count Vronsky: I love you!
Anna Karenina: Why?
Count Vronsky: You can't ask Why about love!

Leo Tolstoy

#9. The merchant's success depends on his or her ability to tell a story. What people see or hear or smell or do when they enter a space guides their feelings, enticing them to celebrate whatever the seller has to offer.

Howard Schultz

#10. I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

Lee Smith

#12. I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

Nigel Mansell

#13. A man with no imaginations has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

#14. Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore