Anton Chekhov Quotes

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Anton Chekhov

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• When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Hard
  • Really
  • Unfinished

• If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Country
  • Want
  • Change

• I've accepted that we've all got crap to deal with and problems that we're fighting not to be defined by. At the end of the day, we all want the same stuff: fulfillment, love, support, comfort, and a hot-air balloon with laser guns attached to it. The most important thing is that we appreciate the crazy ride we're on.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Important
  • Love
  • Support

• If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Song
  • Me
  • Modern

• I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Myself
  • Ideas
  • Laugh

• Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Economy
  • Often
  • Ahead

• I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Different
  • You
  • Need

• I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Father
  • Political
  • Air

• I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Time
  • Me
  • August

• The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Travel
  • Once
  • Roads

• Growing up, my favorite pass-rusher was Julius Peppers. He was just a beast.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Fun
  • Winning
  • Athlete

• That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Happy
  • Lost
  • Content

• I'm uncomfortable publicizing myself as a model. I can only say over and over again, 'That's what I do,' and let people make fun of me.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Fun
  • Myself

• There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Human
  • Race
  • Sisters

• I failed kindergarten because I couldn't spell my last name.

  

  Zach Galifianakis

• I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

  

  Bob Dylan

• I'm surrounded by all these strong women - my publicist, my manager, and my wife - and sometimes I think that women are more evolved than men, and they are able to process a heartache better.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Change
  • Constitution
  • Improvements

• The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to rule the action. They have no authority. A life lived in God is not lived on the plane of the feelings, but of the will. In Scripture the heart is the will - the man himself, the spring of all action, the ruling power bestowed on him by his Creator, capable of choosing and acting.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Action
  • Emotions
  • Authority

• Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Time
  • History
  • Giving

• If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

  

  Anton Chekhov