Goncharov Quotes

#1. Love was life's hardest school of all.
p. 259

Ivan Goncharov

#2. ...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

Mark Batterson

#3. What? Do you suppose the intellect can work separately from the heart?

Ivan Goncharov

#4. The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life ... My life began by flickering out.

Ivan Goncharov

#5. I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#6. Now or neverI 'To be or not to be!' - Oblomov raised himself from his chair a little, but failing to find his slippers with his feet at once, sat down again.

Ivan Goncharov

#7. Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

Hermann Hesse

#8. Treasure every moment in life for it will never happen again.

Sydney

#9. I have selective hearing.

Eddie Van Halen

#10. You are so beautiful,' he whispered. She must have heard those words before, thousands of times, but he wanted her to hear them from *him*.

Julia Quinn

#11. Vision is an idle dream at best and a cynical delusion at worst - but not an achievable end

Peter M. Senge

#12. Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

Ivan Goncharov

#13. Life is duty and obligation, therefore love, too, is a duty. It's as if God sent it to me,' she said, looking up at the sky, 'and told me to love.'
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Ivan Goncharov

#14. The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#15. A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other's good qualities without being irritated by each other's shortcomings and blaming each other for them.

Ivan Goncharov

#16. I want to be on a successful team, and I know that paying one or two or three players premium hurts your chances of being able to bring in extra talent.

Jay Cutler

#17. Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.

Ivan Goncharov

#18. I began life with a quenching of the light of day, and, from the first moment that I realized myself, realized also that I was on the wane.

Ivan Goncharov

#19. Yes, and I think I will have enough strength to live and love my whole life through. One without the other is impossible.
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Ivan Goncharov

#20. Books: boring. Codes: awesome. These are the people who are running the internet.

Robin Sloan

#21. Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.
p. 479

Ivan Goncharov

#22. The fairy tale belongs to the poor ... I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.

Erik Christian Haugaard

#23. The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

Paul Wesley

#24. But in love, merit is won blindly and unaccountably, and in this blindness and unaccountability lies happiness.
pp. 445-446

Ivan Goncharov

#25. We don't change to believe; we believe to change! (el)

Evinda Lepins

#26. For, as every one knows, dogs cannot with equanimity see a human being running.

Ivan Goncharov

#27. It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Ivan Goncharov

#28. Historically, the Christian life began with the public acknowledgment of two uncomfortable realities - evil and death - and in baptism, the Christian makes the audacious claim that neither one gets the final word.

Rachel Held Evans

#29. When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow.

Ivan Goncharov

#30. The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands.

Ivan Goncharov