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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: russian
Birth: November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881

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Happiness Man Enough See Up Count

I always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'

Jimmy Smits

Myself Job Impact Way Always Going

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

John Buchan

Hope Fishing Charm Pursuit Elusive

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

John Agyekum Kufuor

Education Higher Education Africa

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

Max Bill

Unity Thinking Thought Train Way

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

Jeff Nichols

Freedom Great Control Process Kind

My role at NBC was president of 'NBC News.' I had that role for eight years.

Steve Capus

News President Years Role Eight Had

I didn't play receiver my whole life. I played running back, and I liked a bunch of running backs coming up, but I never tried to emulate them.

Stefon Diggs

Life Back Play Never Coming Up

I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

Stan Coveleski

Man Three Why Never Balls Out

A lot of what attracted people to Nirvana was that they were like the people you went to high school with.

Chris Cornell

School People High School You High

It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.

Brandon Stanton

Good Day People Rejection Long You

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

Audre Lorde

Art Living Use

Portraits of other great ones look down on you in your college halls; but while you are young and sit at the brief feast, what avails their serene gaze if it do not lift up your hearts and movingly persuade you to match your manhood to its inheritance?

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Great College You Look Down Young