Mikhail Lermontov Quotes

I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.

Mikhail Lermontov

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• The sun never sets on my gallery.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Never
  • Sun
  • Gallery

• I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Soul
  • Growth
  • Someone

• There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Church

• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sun
  • Laughter
  • Winter

• I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Soul
  • Star
  • Thought

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Interesting

• Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Strong
  • Born

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Soul
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Giving

• That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Sun
  • India
  • Seriously

• I have a lot of disrespect for people who cheat. I feel like if you're in a position in a relationship where you want to see other people, and the opportunity to cheat comes up, don't.

  

  Avan Jogia
  • Opportunity
  • Disrespect
  • Cheat

• Theres still so much interest in the Beatles and John and still so much mythology.

  

  Bob Spitz
  • Interest
  • Beatles
  • Mythology

• I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if cast ashore he would weary and languish no matter how alluring the shady groves and how bright the gentle sun.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Soul
  • Sun
  • Born