Boris Pasternak Quotes

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

Boris Pasternak

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• I love so many styles of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Love
  • I Love

• I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Know
  • Will
  • Prepare

• Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Impact
  • Hunger
  • Productivity

• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Done
  • You
  • Nothing

• I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Pride

• Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Strong
  • Years
  • Through

• It's like the American democratic system. When you vote, even if your candidate doesn't win, you accept that democracy was in action. When people participate in a Tezos network, they're accepting that the democratic vote of the other coin holders will govern the way the protocol moves.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • American
  • Action

• I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Father
  • Food
  • Day

• Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Books

• What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • High
  • Worry
  • motivation

• I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Think
  • Dating

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• Taxes have been complicated. Every single time I spend a Bitcoin, it's a taxable event. It's like I bought and sold an asset. It counts as an investment, with a short- or long-term capital gain or loss.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Time
  • Long
  • Single

• In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that's a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we'll get around to that.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • World
  • Success

• Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • God
  • Nature

• Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.

  

  Liam Neeson
  • Soul

• Oatmeal is a cheap and healthy breakfast.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Breakfast

• Going to work is probably my favorite thing to do. I do that five days a week for probably ten hours a day, but it doesn't even feel like work and it shouldn't. When you enjoy a job so much like I do, it's not work, it's play.

  

  Kelli Berglund
  • Work
  • Job

• Through the marginalization of black fathers and encouragement of destruction lifestyle choices, the progressive Left has cut off one of the lifelines to raising healthy, happy, children intent on bettering themselves and their community.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Black

• In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

  

  Boris Pasternak
  • Community
  • Honor