Luzhin Defence Quotes

#1. You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

Khaled Hosseini

#2. We shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth.

Lionel Shriver

#3. I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.

Robin S. Sharma

#4. At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Harold Bloom

#5. Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

George Orwell

#6. The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

David Levithan

#8. The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from time to time we hear the opposite, then those are just trivial religious and poetical exaggerations and ridiculous rumors, which have nothing to do with the real circumstances of the simple dead.

Hassan Blasim

#9. The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

Gelett Burgess

#10. Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.

Dwight D. Eisenhower