Books Quote by Michael Lewis

“Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don’t trouble it, don’t harass them, don’t deprive them of…

— Richard Adams

“The Rusanovs loved the People, their great People. They served the People and were ready to give their lives for the People. But as…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“He was a mostly mild man with a weakness for passion, a suburban father burdened with the heart of a Russian hero without any…

— Suzanne Berne

Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Man is a pliant animal, a being who gets accustomed to anything. —FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY”

— Dan Ariely

“The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his…

— Paullina Simons

“There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Josh Ozersky was a meat man. He knew meat, revered it, studied it, sang it, evangelized it, wrote about it, and, of course, ate…

— Tom Junod

“He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I want you to read ‘God Sees the Truth, but Waits,’ ” said Mother. “Tolstoy writes about a man, wrongly accused of a murder,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“He saw mankind going trough life in a childlike or animallike manner, which he loved and also despised at the same time. He saw…

— hermann hesse

“It was the first and only fight of his childhood, but it had taught him a valuable lesson about human nature, how people were…

— D.J. Molles