Oblonsky Quotes

#1. Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky - Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world - woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Stepan Arkadyevitch felt exactly the difference that Pyotr Oblonsky described. In Moscow he degenerated so much that if he had had to be there for long together, he might in good earnest have come to considering his salvation; in Petersburg he felt himself a man of the world again.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Oh, things are wretched, miserable!' said Oblonsky, and sighed heavily.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.

Malik Bendjelloul

#5. I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

Andy Roddick

#6. I've broken your heart, haven't I?"
"A million times. And you can break it a million times more, Luna Moon. There will never be a day in my life that I don't love you.

Chloe Asher

#7. While I understand the mother believes what she is saying, I cannot believe the statement to be true for her young child. Hence the book.

May Saubier

#8. I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

Marilyn Monroe

#9. Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who "identified" with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.

Joseph Epstein

#10. It is only through timidity that states are lost.

Voltaire

#11. God is not out to point out your flaws or tell you how bad you messed up.

Jamie Larbi

#12. His voice is low and soft, a piece of silk you might keep in a drawer and pull out only on rare occasions, just to feel it between your fingers.

Anthony Doerr

#13. There is no use on crying over spilled milk, just pour yourself another glass.

Michael Conliffe

#14. Memories leave a light in the eyes, just as plain as scars.

Kat Richardson

#15. I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

Christopher Buckley

#16. No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

Sam Altman

#17. What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#18. Intelligence doesn't always equate to common sense. Or, for that matter, the ability to fully choose one's path in life.

Ais