Nikita Khrushchev (Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev) Quotes

They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

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• Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • World
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Women
  • Family
  • Think

• The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Blood
  • Old
  • England

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Together
  • Learn
  • Democrats

• High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • High
  • Struggle

• I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Album

• I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Rich
  • Now
  • Farm

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Energy
  • Achievement
  • Nation

• They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Different
  • Talent
  • Texas

• Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278) (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Good

• They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

  

  Arundhati Roy

• Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Wolf

• The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Life
  • Country
  • Fashion

• I'd be more than delighted to go find energy in Club Med. But we've tried and did not find it.

  

  Christophe de Margerie
  • Energy

• Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • People
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  • Age

• I am very excited about the future for Ulta Beauty.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • Future

• There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Country
  • Other
  • Carries

• We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Imagination
  • Destiny

• How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Missing
  • Absence
  • Mets

• To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Religion

• Human hair takes much more attention, as far as holding the style. You have to comb it, straighten it out, and wash and dry it.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Attention
  • Style
  • Hair

• They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

  

  Nikita Khrushchev
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