Anton Chekhov Quotes

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Anton Chekhov

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• The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Fun
  • Funny

• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sun
  • Winter
  • Laughter

• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Me
  • Try
  • Escape

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Time
  • Night
  • Morning

• Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• I want my outfit to match my mood.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Want
  • Mood
  • Outfit

• I think there are a few brands like Nike and Patagonia which are quite progressively minded.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Think
  • Like
  • Nike

• Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Love
  • Years
  • Anniversary

• I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Relationship
  • Shows

• I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Career
  • Me
  • Like

• The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so extensive that in it, to a certain degree, all partialities balance out and work together.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Work
  • Together
  • Culture

• A loafer never works except when there's a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Fire

• The same parents can raise a dreamy, reflective girl and a driven, competitive one-the job is not to nurse her nature but to help elicit the essential opposite: to help the dreamy one to be a little more driven, the competitive one to be a little more reflective. The one artisanal, teachable thing is outer conduct.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Job
  • Help
  • Nature

• If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

  

  Rahul Gandhi

• We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Money
  • House
  • Sex

• ..the elimination of other things which are not essential will make for a stronger result.

  

  Alexander Calder

• Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. That is what we have not taught young people, or older ones for that matter. You do not finally win a state of freedom that is protected forever. It doesn't work that way.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • People
  • Work
  • Freedom

• The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the wisdom of liberalism. The truth of the matters is that the ACLU has always been a highly politicized organization.

  

  William Anthony Donohue
  • American
  • Organization
  • Liberalism

• Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

  

  Ed Markey
  • World
  • Success
  • Security

• I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Crazy

• Popsicles should be the new black and then everyone would have one.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Black
  • Everyone
  • Have

• My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • People
  • Girl
  • Sex

• There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

  

  Anton Chekhov