Gentleman In Moscow Quotes

#1. But instead of all that, here he was - the rich husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired gentleman-in-waiting, who liked to eat, drink, and, unbuttoning himself, to denounce the government a little, a member of the Moscow English Club, and a universally beloved member of Moscow society.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.

Richard Branson

#3. When you're home-schooled, you have to have a certain level of work ethic. Otherwise, you don't get anything done.

Seth Numrich

#4. Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Isaac Newton

#5. Do what feels right to you, in whatever circumstance you find yourself in, even if it seems improbable or even impossible. And have faith. Everything else will follow.

Virginia Boecker

#6. I had never felt like that before, as if there were a sort of curse, a merciless force in the light that shone on a world where life is borken and lost, where each new day takes something from the day that precedes it, where suffering is inmovable ...

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

#7. I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go home and torture my artistic self.

Reid Scott

#8. House of Langfeld has rendered you in this cause, it is insulting

Christopher Paolini

#9. I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

Peter Stuyvesant

#10. The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.

Mary Gordon

#12. When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.

Rumer Godden

#13. Well, sometimes everybody tells you something because it is true."
"Sometimes," Nina clarified, "everybody tells you something because they are everybody. But why should one listen to everybody? Did everybody write the Odyssey? Did everybody write the Aeneid?

Amor Towles

#14. To know oneself and one's end or goal in life is true wisdom - knowledge of the heart more than the head.

James Kubicki

#15. I think women hide behind their hair.

Pamela Anderson