Accounts Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which…

— Anonymous

“I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

— Anonymous

When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you anything more?…

— Muhammad

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

— Havelock Ellis

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of…

— Ambrose Bierce

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When…

— Leonard Cohen

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are…

— Samuel Butler

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

— George Herbert

I will prove that the world is wrong, by showing what God is...God himself was once as we are now and is an exalted…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

— Elizabeth Bowen

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

— J. I. Packer

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

— Frank Stella

To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

— John Bunyan