Porfiry Petrovitch Quotes

#1. Well, you may abuse me, be angry with me if you like," Porfiry Petrovitch began again, "but I can't resist. Allow me one little question (I know I am troubling you). There is just one little notion I want to express, simply that I may not forget it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Bill Gates

#3. Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.

Dwyane Wade

#4. Charles Spurgeon's answer was to recognize that whatever God's Word teaches is true, whether or not it all makes sense to us. He said, I

Randy Alcorn

#5. Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution.
[Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

Tacitus

#6. The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.

Tara Lipinski

#7. Confess your madness and it will all subside

Cameron Jace

#8. she opened the lid and was hit with a musty smell she could immediately put a name to: camp. It was an unforgettable combination of mildew, wood smoke and outdoors, an essence that resisted laundering and airing out.

Susan Wiggs

#9. Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Samuel Butler

#10. Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#11. It is interesting, is it not, how we always think most about the one who has gone away and left us? And least about the one who has remained behind?

Lori Baker

#12. To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.

Noah Feldman

#13. I tried to bring up boyfriends and sex. Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done
whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was.

Jack Kerouac

#14. Music is God's voice.

Brian Wilson

#15. I don't look like most women in the industry.

Mayim Bialik

#16. The point of overcoming great challenges isn't to make a million dollars or change the world. The point is to gain strength and wisdom within.

Kevin Cole