Ivan Turgenev Quotes

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

Ivan Turgenev

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• If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Free
  • Challenge
  • Worry

• When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Why
  • Want
  • Thought

• I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.

  

  Alex Wolff

• We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Convince

• Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Government
  • Democracy

• I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Feels
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Care
  • Teenager
  • Boys

• Nowadays, there are plans to separate the Baltic states from the common power system of the former Soviet Union and to integrate them into the European system. What does it mean for us in practice? In practice, it means that a number of zones will emerge between several regions of the Russian Federation, where we will have no power transmission lines, since previously we used to have a loop transition through the Baltic countries.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Mean
  • Common

• If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Study
  • Differences
  • Schoolmen

• Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Knowledge
  • Liberty
  • Invites

• In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

  

  Epictetus
  • Loose
  • In Order
  • Life's Purpose

• The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Impression
  • Consequence
  • Deceived

• I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

  

  will.i.am
  • Tweet

• Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Light
  • Motion
  • Pression

• The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human Beings
  • Disappointed
  • Ideals

• Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Bird

• I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank God. Their lives are happy; they have happy partners, wives, husbands.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Kids
  • Lucky
  • Human Beings

• All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Human Beings
  • Difficulties
  • Spoil