Nikolai Gogol Quotes

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

Nikolai Gogol

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• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • History
  • Story
  • First

• Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• I'm down for adventure and up for anything.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Up
  • Adventure
  • Down

• You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

  

  Ian McShane
  • Why
  • She
  • Want

• Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Friend
  • Hand
  • Hurt

• I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Done
  • Learning
  • I Can

• As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Kids
  • Bridge
  • Transition

• The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Science
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Balance

• Growing up in Canada, I used to love a walk in the early morning, when the streets are quiet and the sun was shining. Walking in the morning is still very refreshing... and if I can, I will walk to my first meeting or appointment.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Morning
  • Sun
  • Quiet

• We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Talent
  • Possess
  • Anxious

• The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Love
  • Fall

• He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Past
  • Confused

• One thing I think we have to do is to make sure that the undocumented workers who are living in America today, that they have to take responsibility. They've got to register, pay a fine, pay their back taxes, learn English and then get on a pathway in which they could have the prospect of being here legally.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Today

• Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Guy
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• Just because we have different views, that doesn't mean that we lack principles.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Different
  • Principles
  • Views

• The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Learning

• As long as we are human, we are destined to make mistakes. We all fall prey to flawed beliefs and views. What separates a forward-looking person from an intransigent one, a virtuous person from a malevolent one, however, is whether one can candidly admit to ones mistakes and take bold steps to redress them.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Mistake

• Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Time
  • Space
  • Present

• As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Idea
  • Clear
  • Floating

• Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Views
  • Bread
  • Chasing