Politeness Is Not Weakness Quotes

#1. Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which "dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality.

Lev Shestov

#2. RESTORATION OF FAITH - Takes

Anonymous

#3. Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

Marvin Kalb

#4. I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.

Robert Kiyosaki

#5. The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

K. Eric Drexler

#6. For over two centuries (or so historians tell us), it was from the St. Petersburg salons that our country's culture advanced. From those great rooms overlooking the Fontanka Canal, new cuisines, fashions, and ideas all took their first tentative steps into Russian society.

Amor Towles

#7. I wonder whether what we call politeness isn't just weakness

Anthony Powell

#8. I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.

Maurice Sendak