Mikhailovsky Quotes

#1. People were always ready to yield their
wills, to worship the hero, because they were not given a chance
for developing initiative, stability, and independence, said the great
nineteenth-century Russian sociologist Nikolai Mikhailovsky

Ernest Becker

#2. The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

Danny Silk

#3. Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

John Dryden

#4. Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Carl Sandburg

#5. I don't understand what apps are on my phone. Why do they ask for passwords? Why do they all ask for different passwords? It's so frustrating that I end up just reading a book every time I try to go online.

Chelsea Handler

#6. One day you believe you're Cinderella, and the next all your imaginary glimmer falls away, and you see yourself as just another poor fuck, sentenced to live out your days in the Bone.

Tarryn Fisher

#7. With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet it was easy enough to see that her slightly protruding blue eyes were blank screens of self-love on which a small selection of fake emotions was allowed to flicker.

Edward St. Aubyn

#8. In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

John F. Carlson

#9. I want to be treated like a human being.

Rosa Parks

#10. If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.

Jen Pollock Michel

#12. I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Anthony Hopkins

#13. The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

Hannah More