Valadis Dokos Quotes

#1. I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.

Antony Beevor

#2. Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

Rembrandt

#3. A man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#4. I would rather live a life with a hundred failed dreams created on my own terms, than one successful reality, created on the terms of another.

Thurman P. Banks Jr.

#5. I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

Studs Terkel

#6. I let the curtains fall back against the glass, effectively blocking the view of my nemesis standing there beneath the twinkle lights, looking way too hot in his charcoal-colored suit.
It would be so much easier to hate him if he didn't look so good. And I want to hate him; I really do.

Kristi Cook

#7. Life is not a transcript. This isn't a test you can ace or fail. You can get Cs and Ds and still be okay.

Robin Friedman

#8. The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.

Gary Paulsen

#9. We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.

Iyanla Vanzant

#10. I think God calls and encourages us to dream big, but sometimes we put God in a box in a very small way, when God wants us to look outside the box.

Jodi Benson

#11. After several interactions in which he questioned my authority and pretended not to hear me speaking, it was clear he was my type

Lena Dunham

#12. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

Edmund Burke

#13. I know what I know of you," he whispered into my ear, his breath hot. "And I want to know more.

Karina Halle