Dostoevsky The Gambler Quotes

#1. To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.

Sophie Swetchine

#2. How do you measure what's real, what's true? How do you stack up all that's pure against all that's evil?

Jennifer Handford

#3. I told you, you're my black pearl. When i first set eyes on you in the servant's hall I thought you were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life.

Daisy Goodwin

#4. Tammy dips her pickles in mustard and red dirt and everyone knows why," she whispered as if someone might overhear.

Valenciya Lyons

#5. All Britons are descended from the same set of people a mere thirty generations ago.

Matt Ridley

#6. To an extent, his good looks would insulate him from suspicion, for in this new century, image trumped substance and appearance often mattered more than truth.

Dean Koontz

#7. Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.

Publilius Syrus

#8. What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.

Alice Dalgliesh

#9. I'm awesome all the time, babe.

Kristen Ashley

#10. Existence required order, and there was order; the laws of nature, irrevocable and immutable.

Tom Godwin

#11. 'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

Sue Townsend

#12. The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

Joshua Reynolds

#13. You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

Ulrich Beck

#14. He supposed it was inevitable. Dip a person into one particular specialty deeply enough and long enough, and he would automatically begin to assume that specialists in all other fields were magicians, judging the depth of their wisdom by the breadth of his own ignorance ...

Isaac Asimov

#15. And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.

Pope John Paul II