Quotes - Christine Korda (christinekorda) (Toronto, ON, Canada) Showing 1-30 of 47

#1

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: change, fear-of-change

2280 likes

#2

“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

441 likes

#3

“And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

578 likes

#4

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

875 likes

#5

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: life, perspective, social-norms, society

528 likes

#6

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

329 likes

#7

“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: capital-punishment, crime, death, justice, punishment

270 likes

#8

“What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

282 likes

#9

“You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.”
― Thucydides

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-to-thucydides

94 likes

#10

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: intelligence, intelligent-action

2975 likes

#11

“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.”
― Hannah Arendt

114 likes

#12

“Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry, you can't have a baby brother, because that would mean that Daddy had sex, and that's never going to happen again.”
― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

tags: humor

113 likes

#13

“Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.”
― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

36 likes

#14

“Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. ”
― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

53 likes

#15

“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: society

41 likes

#16

“He wanted her to experience all the glorious cheese of life.”
― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

tags: a-dirty-job

8 likes

#17