Anna Akhmatova Quotes

That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.

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• I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Numbers
  • Coming

• Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Want
  • Party
  • Care

• I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Very

• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Money
  • Think

• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• I love people, and the hustle.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Love
  • Hustle

• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Relationship
  • Conversation

• I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Want
  • Action
  • Horror

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Like
  • Charity
  • Monday

• I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Say

• For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Place
  • Kid
  • London

• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Future
  • Today
  • Growing

• I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movie
  • Industry
  • Ups And Downs

• I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Recognize

• The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system.

  

  Edward S. Herman
  • Military
  • Numbers
  • Propaganda

• The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.

  

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Unique

• As a gay black man, it's important to me to show up - that I'm able to show up as my whole self, in every space that I'm in, because that's how I'm able to be the most true to who I am.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • Up
  • Important
  • True

• I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • People
  • Help
  • Small

• That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Black
  • Wish