Anna Akhmatova Quotes

Dread. Bottomless dread... I am that shadow on the threshold defending my remnant peace.

Anna Akhmatova

• Peace
• Shadow

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm not a Republican.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Republican

• It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Ice

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Know
  • Dying
  • Bookstore

• 'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Movies
  • Favorite
  • Fargo

• In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Believe
  • Worst
  • Russia

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Up
  • Balance

• There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • America
  • Discussion

• It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Crazy
  • Artist
  • Successful

• Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Changed
  • Last
  • Hawaii

• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Cost

• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• It's kind of fun to be sexy.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Sexy

• I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Know
  • Language
  • Civilization

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Gay

• So why have I wavered so long? You have been seeking me unwearyingly. Why did I hesitate once again, asking for time to deal with my own affairs? Once I had set my hand to the plough, why did I look back? Without realizing it, I was making myself unfit to follow you.

  

  Brother Roger
  • Why
  • Realizing
  • Look Back

• When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• We need new partnerships for peace and security.

  

  Anna Lindh
  • Peace

• There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • House

• Whoever is sitting in the White House, especially in their second term, when gas goes up to $3 a gallon, and Katrina, and whenever we're at war, that person sitting in the White House gets the brunt of the accusations.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Up
  • War
  • House

• Dread. Bottomless dread... I am that shadow on the threshold defending my remnant peace.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Peace
  • Shadow