Ivan Turgenev Quotes
Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes to the sky, but even in the sky there seemed to be no tranquillity. Dotted with stars, it constantly quivered and danced and shivered.Ivan Turgenev
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
Hank Aaron -
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
Rachel Stevens -
The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
Jack Valenti -
Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
J. I. Packer -
A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
Rand Paul -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
Zara Larsson -
I've served on the International Relations Committee.
Sam Brownback -
We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
Nate Powell -
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
W. Edwards Deming -
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
Edna Ferber -
There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
Carlisle Floyd
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
Karine Vanasse -
I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
Fantasia Barrino -
'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
Carine Roitfeld -
I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham Lincoln -
It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
Aaron Lazar
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Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action.
Marilyn Ferguson -
Sometimes doing the gods’ bidding required a hardened heart.
Tad Williams -
One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
Brit Marling -
Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet,From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,Lest I should fear, and fall, and miss Thee so,Who art not missed by any that entreat.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
Plato -
Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes to the sky, but even in the sky there seemed to be no tranquillity. Dotted with stars, it constantly quivered and danced and shivered.
Ivan Turgenev