Anna Karenina Levin Quotes

#1. Levin tried to drink a little coffee, and put a piece of roll into his mouth, but his mouth could do nothing with it. He took the piece out of his mouth, put on his overcoat and went out to walk about again.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

Virginia Woolf

#3. He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. The secret of longevity ... Is to keep breathing!

Sophie Tucker

#5. Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

Ramez Naam

#6. Designers have a responsibility to show the future as they want it to be - or at least as it can be, not just the way an industry wants it to be.

Yves Behar

#7. Oh, this sounds promising. I guess we should have known two control freaks weren't going to get along.

Jamie McGuire

#8. Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty; it is apt either to feign amiability, or not feigning it, to show all the repulsiveness of discontent.

George Eliot

#9. Life is a series of obstacles and setbacks; living is overcoming them.

Dean Karnazes

#10. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. At the judgment, in response to our questions, the Lord will show us his wounds, and we will understand. In the meantime, however, he simply expects us to stand by him and to believe what these wounds tell us, even though we cannot work right through the logic of this world.

Pope Benedict XVI

#13. A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

Ouida

#14. He [Vronsky] himself felt that, except that crazy fellow married to Kitty Shcherbatsky, who, quite irrelevantly had with rabid virulence told him a lot of pointless nonsense, every nobleman whose acquaintance he had made had become his partisan.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. You know I ain't got no brand new bag.

Junior Wells

#16. Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.

Lloyd Blankfein

#17. I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.

Steven Wright

#18. Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan