Michael Strogoff Quotes

Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!"
"Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik. ~ Jules Verne

Most of us don't really fear political disagreements with our close friends. We fear not being liked and respected by people we like and respect. Challenging someone's political beliefs can signal (correctly or not) a lack of respect or affection. One way to prevent this from happening is to say something like 'I think you are a great person, and I value our friendship, so when I disagree with you it's because I value your opinion and want to learn more about how you see things.' If someone manages to communicate this idea to me, then I'm probably not going to hesitate to express my real opinions about controversial issues. It also helps if we don't call each other 'stupid,' 'evil,' or 'crazy' when 'I don't quite see it that way; help me understand what you mean' will do just fine. ~ Michael Austin

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green. ~ Michael Frayn

The New Orleans I knew ain't no more. ~ Michael Davis

To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell. ~ Michael Frayn

I am incognito; running away from scenes of the tested truths that I have so meticulously exacted before I am found guilty of the very things I have written. ~ Wyatt Michael

People don't like to guess. It's easier to know something by how it immediately appears. Dark, hard metal is known as it appears, and so dark, hard people are built from it. Marble is smooth and pale and bright like the faces chipped into it. But that's something about life, what you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better. If they could speak, do you think they'd all be the same? ~ Devon Michael

When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy. ~ Michael Ashcroft

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing. ~ Michael Palin

George Bush created lots of jobs. ~ Michael Steele

Now Elric was caught up in a kind of intradimensional hurricane, in which a thousand reverses ocurred within his brain at once and he became a thousand other creatures for an instant, and where he lived through more than ten other lives; a fate only minimally different from the one that was familiar to him; and so vast did the multiverse become, so unthinkable, that he began to go mad as he attempted to make sense of just a fraction of what laid siege to his sanity. ~ Michael Moorcock

There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. ~ Michael Pollan

It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol. It has done nothing for climate change and the business is in real trouble now with the collapse of oil prices. It's completely dependent on a dollar subsidy and tariff from the government. ~ Michael Pollan

The military is only as strong as the other institutions supporting it. ~ Michael DeLong

I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths. ~ Michael Patrick King

We could only pay attention to one dying person at a time. ~ Michael Kimball

What single brave decision do I need to make today? ~ Michael Hyatt

When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. She's always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son. ~ Michael Dirda

I want to do more films. ~ Michael B. Jordan

...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good. ~ Michael R. Solomon

I was aware of my success, but I never stopped trying to get better, ~ Michael Jordan

A very good friend of mine, Michael Purser, once remarked that if my mother was the irresistible force, my father was surely the immovable object. Whatever the truth, I should not be here but for them. Being here is the supreme gift. ~ Julian Barbour

Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each other, making things worse, and fouling their own nest, all because they imagine things aren't good enough and should be made much better. ~ Michael Leunig

Pretend to give consent to the advice of others, but if you find it suitable,take it. But if out of the right view, despise and cast it away ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We plunge into love with a naivete that ignores all prior humiliations. Thank goodness, I guess. Because we never learn, we reach for love again and again. ~ Michael Perry

I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that. ~ Michael Imperioli

Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Alcoa, the biggest aluminum company in the country, encountered two problems peculiar to Iceland when, in 2004, it set about erecting its giant smelting plant. The first was the so-called hidden people - or, to put it more plainly, elves - in whom some large number of Icelanders, steeped long and thoroughly in their rich folkloric culture, sincerely believe. Before Alcoa could build its smelter it had to defer to a government expert to scour the enclosed plant site and certify that no elves were on or under it. It was a delicate corporate situation, an Alcoa spokesman told me, because they had to pay hard cash to declare the site elf-free, but, as he put it, we couldn't as a company be in a position of acknowledging the existence of hidden people. ~ Michael Lewis

Cairo is one of the greatest storehouses of human achievement on earth, ranging from the pharaonic through the Christian and Islamic periods to the Belle Epoque. ~ Michael Haag

Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them. ~ Michael Josephson

(...) greed that preys on human misery (...) ~ Michael J. Sandel

Between things shift and change constantly; there is no such thing as objective truth. ~ Michael Swanwick

Believers, do you have the courage to get alone with God and say to Him honestly, "If what I have is all the Christianity there is, then the thing is a fraud!" God ~ Michael Brown

I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking. ~ Michael Sheen

In my work I sometimes borrow Claire's nature, as well as her careful focus on the world. ~ Michael Ondaatje

Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career. ~ Michael Owen