Starets Quotes

#1. Noble starets, tell me, are my high spirits offensive to you or not? Fyodor Pavlovich suddenly exclaimed, gripping the arms of his chair with both hands and appearing ready to leap out of it, depending on the reply.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. The widespread joy that greeted Rasputin's assassination confused me. No matter what crimes the starets had committed, I was not accustomed to the idea of rejoicing at a man's death, even less at his murder.

Elisabeth Gille

#3. If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas.

Wil S. Hylton

#4. Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

Aldo Leopold

#5. The saints repeated this truth time and again over the centuries; that the natural state of a human being is the continuous contemplation and memory of God. I do not mean by that a cerebral memory of God but a memory that works from within the heart.

Kyriacos C. Markides

#6. Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

Franz Grillparzer

#7. No one said a word for some time. Everyone stared at Hadrian in wonder, including Albert, whose mouth hung agape.

It was the duchess who finally found words to sum up their collective thoughts. "Well, aren't you just an astonishment topped with surprises!

Michael J. Sullivan