Bolkonsky Quotes

#1. Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever in the court world by asking to be sent to the front, instead of begging for a post in attendance on the Tsar's person.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. He's holding onto me, but this time it feels like he's holding onto me because his earth has shifted off its axis, and I'm his core.

Colleen Hoover

#4. Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

John Updike

#5. Avaunt, you cullions!

William Shakespeare

#6. Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. William Wordsworth,

James Hollis

#7. despite my physical limitations, I'm living as though I have no limits.

Nick Vujicic

#8. I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.

Max Von Sydow

#9. Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and madness; but sex it is always about comfort, pleasure and power.

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

John Bolton

#11. Better that the whole world should turn against you ... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

Guy Finley