Ivan Turgenev Quotes
There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.Ivan Turgenev
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
Youssou N'Dour -
It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
Adam McKay -
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
Harry Browne -
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Barbra Streisand -
I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
Natalie Massenet
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I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.
Idris Elba -
A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
Gary Becker -
Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.
Buddy Holly -
We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.
Denise Morrison -
You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
Leon Blum
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Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
J. C. Ryle -
There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.
Yasmina Khadra -
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
Baden Powell -
The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
William Cowper -
From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.
Tammy Baldwin -
When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.
Pyotr Ouspensky
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For everyone who has carried water in thimbles and teaspoons throughout the centuries. And for all those who continue to do so. For as many centuries as it takes.
Courtney Milan -
There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.
Ivan Turgenev