Ivan Turgenev Quotes
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
Ivan Turgenev
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
Irving Kirsch
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
Gabriele Nanni
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
Gary Larson
In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
Raf Simons
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself.
Gautama Buddha
Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine
It's been a while since I've been to church, but you don't get unborn again.
John Schneider
And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.
Joanne Rowling
We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.
Ivan Turgenev