Mikhail Lermontov Quotes

I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day, and, I believe, frequent association with a listless phlegmatic would make me an impassioned dreamer.

Mikhail Lermontov

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• I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Place

• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• For me, opposition is just another opposition.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Me
  • Just
  • Another

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

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Want

• I believe in God. God created the world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Alcohol

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Follow

• Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I do believe in happy-ever-after.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Believe
  • Happy

• Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Live

• A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Believe
  • Human
  • I Believe

• I got comments about being too small, too short, there haven't been any Asian players and who am I to go out there and turn pro before my 16th birthday? And that's all good and fine. People want to have their comments and their opinions. Ultimately, you do what you believe in your heart. I think for me, things turned out OK.

  

  Michael Chang
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Opinion

• My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Mother
  • Father
  • German

• All I know is we're going into the All-Star beak on a positive note. But we haven't achieved anything. Nobody has done anything except gotten to the All-Star break.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Done
  • Star
  • Positive

• Everyone, including the city officials, seemed to be taking direction from Bakhtiyor. Who needs breakdown insurance when you have human rights activists? I was whisked through to the restaurant, where we had a very good meal indeed, with French wine and real whisky. I was amazed. Dima was still considerably shaken and a bit tearful.

  

  Craig Murray
  • Insurance
  • Have
  • Bakhtiyor

• Hate destroys the hater.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Destroys

• I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of sad and futile opposition to the dictates of either heart or reason. The presence of an enthusiast makes me as cold as a midwinter's day, and, I believe, frequent association with a listless phlegmatic would make me an impassioned dreamer.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Believe
  • Lying
  • Opposition