Nikolai Gogol Quotes

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

Nikolai Gogol

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• I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.

  

  Cam
  • Life
  • Live
  • Awesome

• The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Game

• There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Business

• I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

  

  Claire Tomalin

• My parents had two rules: You had to go to college, and you had to pay for it yourself. So we all did.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Parents
  • College

• I met Edward Teller. Everything he believed in and stood for was antithetical to what I believed in and stood for. I like running into that in life. I like extreme points of view, a level of commitment - and I certainly love mastery.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Life
  • Running
  • Commitment

• As you know, there are al-Qaeda operatives that are taken back into Iran, given training as leaders, and they're moving back into Iraq.

  

  John McCain
  • Moving
  • Taken
  • Training

• When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

  

  Idries Shah
  • Why
  • Door
  • Fortune

• Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Learn
  • Try
  • Humility

• The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Faith
  • Humanity
  • Library

• Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Great
  • Happiness
  • Hiding

• They did some things early on in there that threw us some curve balls. On defense, they did a real good coaching job on that part. We had to kind of struggle to get things going again, but we did control the ball, which is a big deal.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Real
  • Job

• Yes, we should consider ways to address the deficit and bring real, direct relief to the gulf region, ... but we must not lose sight of maintaining the infrastructure that supports our economy and way of life.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Life
  • Real
  • Economy

• What is important, and I think celebrities should do, is show your children when they are young is that wealth is not important. I took my children when they where young to Brazil, to the shanty towns with children begging. Ever since that day, I have had no problems with my children, if I buy them anything they are grateful.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Important
  • Children

• It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Action
  • Courage
  • Ridiculous

• By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• Even a paranoid can have enemies.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Paranoid
  • Enemies

• It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Wisdom
  • Soil
  • Seed

• Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

  

  John Calvin
  • Way
  • Despair
  • The Lord

• History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

  

  Will Durant
  • History
  • Burning
  • Soil

• The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • The Lord
  • Soil
  • Tillers