Koltsovo Quotes

#1. Well, if getting to the bottom is what is called for, I am sure there is no man better for the job.

Amor Towles

#2. Do you think this world is perfect, boy?" he said. "Do you think this is the way I would have wanted it? Life is what it is. Surrender your immaculate hopes and bear what you can. That is all we can do".

David Kirk

#3. We must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.

Angela Carter

#4. Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Choosing between your kind and another species wasn't cruel. It was necessary.

Rick Yancey

#6. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

Ray Bradbury

#7. Carving is a source of joy to the artist ... To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's own desire, or, sometimes, the inspiration of the material itself: this gives the sculptor great joy.

Aristide Maillol

#8. If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.

John Of The Cross

#9. Logically speaking," he said lightly, "the idea that you hired someone to attack me doesn't make much sense. I'm not sure what your motive would be."
"I could have wanted to put an end to the rumors."
"That would be a shame. I like the rumors.

Marie Rutkoski

#10. There's no blueprint on how to beat me.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#11. The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.

Tom G. Palmer