Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln -
Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
Ada Lovelace -
Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
Ofra Strauss -
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells -
I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.'
Natalie Dormer
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Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.
Wendy Kopp -
As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.
Rachael Harris -
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
Zig Ziglar -
The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!
Ted Turner -
I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'
Uzo Aduba -
I always compartmentalized so many different things.
Larry Wilmore
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I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.
Lady Gregory -
I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me.
Olivia Munn -
And at the time the Republican Congress and a Senate candidate by the name of Mitt Romney - crowd boos No, no, no - Don't boo, vote. Vote! Voting's the best revenge.
Barack Obama -
We saw in San Jose these protesters starting to pelt stuff at Trump supporters. That's not what our democracy is about. That's not what you do. There's no room for violence. There's no place for shouting. There's no room for a politics that fails to at least listen to the other side - even if you vehemently disagree.
Barack Obama -
If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Nobody's wrong but England – and England's always wrong,Too late – or else too early – too soft – or else too strong.And when for once the wide world begins to praise her nameHer own sons crowd and hurry to shout her back to shame.
A. P. Herbert
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I'll be looking for some co-sponsorship in the House, and I hope to get at least part of it passed in September, but I think it's going to take at least 18 months to get all the way there, ... It will take this session and part of the next to get it all done.
Barbara Mikulski -
It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.
Henry Ward Beecher -
When she gets into negotiations with her European counterparts about trade arrangements, could she remind them that cake exists to be eaten and cherries exist to be picked.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I really do not like more than a week or two of down time.
Jason London -
In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish-that is their strength.
Anton Chekhov