Anna Akhmatova Quotes

You thought I was that type: That you could forget me, And that I'd plead and weep And throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare...

Anna Akhmatova

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• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Me
  • Give
  • Chastity

• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Education
  • Finish
  • Homeless

• The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Important
  • Experience

• I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Better

• To create a work of art is to create the world.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Myself

• My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Father
  • Small
  • Health

• So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Think
  • Lost
  • Edge

• Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Work
  • United States

• My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Character
  • Think
  • Me

• I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was very naughty, and my mom thought if I was busy, I'd be better. And I didn't really do acting until later on in the school, with an amazing teacher. I left, went traveling, came back.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • School
  • Amazing
  • Mom

• I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Amazing
  • Body
  • Name

• Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Up
  • Never
  • Find

• Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Memory

• After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies....it was real, and I was scared to my core.My bones were shaking...m heart was pounding...I thought I was going to explode. I'm glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Convinced
  • Shadows
  • Fantasies

• He looked tired but at that moment, as we sat at the kitchen table, there was something young about him. And I thought that maybe he was changing into someone else. Everyone was always becoming someone else.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Tired
  • Changing
  • Kitchen Table

• This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Dream
  • Author
  • Dreamer

• I like those lefties, but when you're hitting, all pitchers look alike. I don't care too much who's throwing or what he throws. When my timing is off, I have trouble; when it ain't, I don't.

  

  Hank Aaron

• You thought I was that type: That you could forget me, And that I'd plead and weep And throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare...

  

  Anna Akhmatova