Anna Akhmatova Quotes

This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet.

Anna Akhmatova

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  Oscar Nunez
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• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

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• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

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• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

  

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• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
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• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

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• George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Always
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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  

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  • Up
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• For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

  

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• I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Life
  • Believe
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• There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
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• Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.

  

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• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

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• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

  

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• I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'

  

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• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

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• A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.

  

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  • Great
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• I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.

  

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  • Life
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• The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing. Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces?

  

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  • Life
  • Science
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• Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Music

• Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

  

  Raymond Loewy
  • Winning
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• This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Age