Quotes About Dostoevski

#1. America faces a new race that has awakened.

E. Franklin Frazier

#2. Don't be afraid to be yourself and don't let anybody tell you that that's wrong. Because the best thing is you.

Willow Smith

#3. There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

Martha Grimes

#4. We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaid. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Jimmy Carter

#5. If anything defeated her, it would be her own mind and self-doubt.

Cat Johnson

#6. Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.

David Foster Wallace

#7. If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at paintings or movies or plays or whatever, is just a litany of murder and death.

Ethan Hawke

#8. Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do
for family and for community and for humanity as a whole.

Alan Keyes

#9. As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Dorothy Day

#10. Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.

Suzanne Fields

#11. Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God's grace.

John Stott

#12. If we are wise, we never leave school.

Horace Fletcher

#13. Dostoevski's The Double is his best work though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's Nose.

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

Giovanni Ribisi

#15. It's all like an ocean! cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

John Lanchester

#17. I could be dead or something even more tragic could have happened, but by God's grace I am still alive. I was hooked on Crystal Meth for eight years and did it every single day, all day long. I honestly have no idea how my heart survived or how I didn't suffer multiple overdoses, I don't get it.

Christian Hosoi

#18. A square meter of earth, Dostoevski said; if all you had was a square meter of earth to stand on, and nothing around you but impenetrable fog, living would be preferable to dying.

Joe Haldeman

#19. We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe.

Leonid Brezhnev

#20. Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady

Alexandre Dumas

#21. I think that there's the Kim Kardashian brand and the Kardashian brand. I think they blend together, but I have different qualities or interests that my sisters might not be so into.

Kim Kardashian

#22. Lord, there has never been a human society without overweening pride at the top and bitter envy at the bottom. That is why if the "have-nots" ever overthrow the "haves" they become the same.

Timothy Keller

#23. When I write, I don't translate for white readers ... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.

Toni Morrison