Quotes About Tolstoy Dostoevsky

#1. Unlike Tolstoy, Dostoevsky was ardently persuaded of Christ's divinity, but that divinity moved his soul and solicited his intelligence most forcefully through its human aspect.

George Steiner

#2. I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

Tommy Bolin

#3. I'm Caspar Vega, bitch.

Caspar Vega

#4. But the Russian writers would be packed away in mothballs and stored in our basement. I would savor the idea of Dostoevsky's, Tolstoy's and Gorki's volumes molding in the dank cellar, wisps of camphor and odors of wet earth floating above them. I

Maya Angelou

#5. Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope here at home!

Dana Gould

#6. The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

Julien Benda

#7. You may not find the opportunity to succeed, but you can always find the opportunity to serve. Then serve to succeed.

Debasish Mridha

#8. secret of what passed between him and the strange girl who would have sacrificed her marriage to him on so short an acquaintance remains

Henry James

#9. You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.

Cuthbert Soup

#10. We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.

Nina Easton

#11. Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.

Samuel Johnson

#12. Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.

Katharine McPhee

#13. If I see someone down, I'll try to give him a good laugh.

Joe Cowley

#14. For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. What he needed was a metaphorical Bobbit job

Tyne O'Connell

#16. Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

Joseph Brodsky

#17. Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh and be silent and be delighted with one another.

Caryll Houselander

#18. Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.'
'Never. Going. To. Happen.

Karen Marie Moning