Maxim Gorky Quotes

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

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• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Business
  • City
  • Identity

• I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Always
  • Struggle
  • Clothing

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Feel
  • Run
  • Quit

• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Heart
  • Doubt
  • Paris

• I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Want

• The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Time
  • World
  • Truth

• I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Bad
  • Light
  • Change

• I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Support
  • Lost

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Today
  • Struggle
  • Religion

• The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Friends
  • Freedom
  • September

• Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Fate
  • Bottom
  • Dealing

• A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Judge
  • Rules
  • Evidence

• I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

  

  Andre Aciman

• Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • People
  • Trying
  • Past

• I like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Past
  • Challenge

• Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Past

• It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • Think
  • Past
  • Stop

• In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

  

  Maxim Gorky
  • Past