Maxim Gorky Quotes

Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

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• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Work
  • Priority
  • Traveling

• It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.

  

  Victor Garber
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Way
  • Change
  • Afraid

• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Men
  • Sympathy
  • Generosity

• Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Life
  • You
  • Walking

• Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Help
  • Know
  • Myself

• I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Action
  • Doing
  • Direction

• The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • History
  • Soviet

• My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Country
  • Me

• Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Medicine
  • Boundaries
  • Also

• Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Fear
  • Passion
  • Happiness

• I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Up
  • Mother

• Your experience cautions that progress is neither easy nor quick.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Experience
  • Progress

• When God comes A great noise will pierce us, The day of judgment terribly. Messengers from the door, Wind, and sea, and fire. lightning and thunder A number without flattery. The people of the world groaning Will be concealed.

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• In Clintonese, that would be 'You are free to infer that I was saying that.'

  

  Larry Wall
  • Free

• Justice is paramount to civilisational triumph because of its centrality to human dignity needs, the success of individual geo-cultural domains and the well-being of human civilisation.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Success
  • Justice

• I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Justice
  • Remembered
  • Humorous

• The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • Why
  • Reason

• I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Time
  • Book
  • Found

• The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

  

  James St. James
  • True
  • Nature
  • Evil

• Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.

  

  Maxim Gorky