Nikolai Leskov Quotes

#1. There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

Fred Hoyle

#2. Now and again in these parts you come across people so remarkable that, no matter how much time has passed since you met them, it is impossible to recall them without your heart trembling.

Nikolai Leskov

#3. Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don't ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.

Elif Shafak

#4. Katerina Lvovna lived a boring life in the rich house of her father-in-law during the five years of marriage to her unaffectionate husband; but, as often happens, no one paid the slightest attention to this boredom of hers.

Nikolai Leskov

#5. Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

Ford Frick

#6. To tell about him, one should be French, because only the people of that nation manage to explain to others what they don't understand themselves.

Nikolai Leskov

#7. Any child is stronger than a mother, since the love we have for our children could kill us.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#8. Life has been given us to enjoy.

Nikolai Leskov

#9. One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

Charles Spurgeon

#10. Commerce is the school of cheating.

Luc De Clapiers

#11. Many people expect, just as they did then, "those at the top" to make all their decisions for them: Please get us work, and take care of our rent. These people vote for those who shout the loudest and deliver promises that are ultimately impossible to fulfill.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

#12. You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

Michela Wrong

#13. And then she woke up and it was all a dream.' It was just about the worst ending you could have to any story.

Terry Pratchett

#14. I'm constantly searching for ways to do better because I believe life is an evolution. It's not about reaching an end goal and hanging up your hat ... It's about continually growing.

Bobbi Brown

#15. A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.

John Ziman

#16. Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

James Taylor

#17. Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

#18. In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#19. Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.

Louis Menand

#20. In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.

Nikolai Leskov