Odoevsky Quotes

#1. I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not

Elizabeth Fry

#2. [W]ith the sense of self gone, ... actions naturally become uncalculated and free.

Steve Hagen

#3. My life and deed is my example.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#5. Don't hide from me, Tanna. I want to help you and in order to do that I need to know everything you're feeling.

Lorelei James

#6. (Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#7. The Universe is picking us off one by one. Yesterday part of the poop deck went, and with it all the toilets.

Stanislaw Lem

#8. It's quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people who are centuries removed from us their thoughts, their will ...

Vladimir Odoevsky

#9. We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

May Sarton

#10. It takes a lot of work to keep someone oppressed and it takes a heroic effort to get out of such an oppression!

Danita Smith

#11. There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.

George Leonard

#12. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Charles Phillips

#13. I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac.

Giancarlo Esposito

#14. In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#15. Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#16. I've always had a strong love and a sense of care for kids. And the one thing is evident and is so true - the kids are our future.

Ciara

#17. As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had to fight through the courts for everything, including even physiotherapy, which is my right under the jail manual.

Asif Ali Zardari