Small: Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Small: Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Small: Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart o
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Small: One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a mans laugh before you know anything of him, you may confi
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
Small: True life is lived when tiny changes occur
Leo Tolstoy
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: If you want to be happy, be
Leo Tolstoy
"If you want to be happy, be"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: I sit on a mans back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sor
Leo Tolstoy
"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: He never chooses an opinion he just wears whatever happens to be in style
Leo Tolstoy
"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself
Leo Tolstoy
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six
Leo Tolstoy
"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: Boredom: the desire for desires
Leo Tolstoy
"Boredom: the desire for desires"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love
Leo Tolstoy
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness
Leo Tolstoy
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible
Leo Tolstoy
"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon w
Leo Tolstoy
"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation,
Leo Tolstoy
"The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered
Leo Tolstoy
"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
Small: Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas
Joseph Stalin
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas"
Joseph Stalin, Leader
Small: I believe in one thing only, the power of human will
Joseph Stalin
"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will"
Joseph Stalin, Leader
Small: Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem
Joseph Stalin
"Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem"
Joseph Stalin, Leader
Small: You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves
Joseph Stalin
"You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves"
Joseph Stalin, Leader
Small: Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement
Vladimir Lenin
"Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
Small: Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever
Vladimir Lenin
"Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
Small: Crime is a product of social excess
Vladimir Lenin
"Crime is a product of social excess"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
Small: The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation
Vladimir Lenin
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
Small: The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organi
Vladimir Lenin
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
Small: Sometimes - history needs a push
Vladimir Lenin
"Sometimes - history needs a push"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
Small: I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly
Catherine the Great
"I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly"
Catherine the Great, Royalty
Small: You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I writ
Catherine the Great
"You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings"
Catherine the Great, Royalty
Small: If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen
"If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
Small: Dont you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
"Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
Small: The press is our chief ideological weapon
"The press is our chief ideological weapon"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
Small: To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also
Igor Stravinsky
"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Small: Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune
Igor Stravinsky
"Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Small: The real composer thinks about his work the whole time he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of
Igor Stravinsky
"The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
Small: This is the way I wanna die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song
"This is the way I wanna die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song"
Regina Spektor, Musician
Small: Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something t
"Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible"
Regina Spektor, Musician
Small: Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience t
"Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience"
Regina Spektor, Musician
Small: I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I dont care so much t
"I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things"
Regina Spektor, Musician
Small: Ive done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destr
"I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better"
Regina Spektor, Musician