Ivan Turgenev Quotes

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

Ivan Turgenev

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• I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Cats
  • Philadelphia

• What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Want
  • Death
  • Missing

• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • President
  • Battle
  • Syria

• You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Doing

• The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Spirit
  • Blood

• I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Pay
  • Error
  • Physician

• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Children
  • War
  • Fight

• My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Said
  • Try

• I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Serious
  • Name
  • Questions

• The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Great
  • Living
  • Possible

• I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Different
  • Day
  • Survival

• I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Family
  • Love

• My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Experience
  • Society
  • Fear

• I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Kids
  • Myself
  • Like

• We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Racism

• In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Say
  • Lemons

• Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Everyone
  • Invest

• Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.

  

  Norman Davies
  • Life
  • Death
  • Balance

• The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Government
  • Save

• Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Force
  • Say
  • Don't Want