Anton Chekhov Quotes

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

Anton Chekhov

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• It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Lose
  • Head
  • Championships

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sweet
  • Worst
  • Sweets

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • World
  • Marriage

• Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina,' that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Drama
  • Author

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Want
  • Philosophy

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • World
  • Old
  • Jazz

• I was not really as good as I should have been.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Good
  • Should
  • Been

• Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • May
  • Think

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Concern
  • Bisexual

• By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

  

  John le Carre
  • Age

• Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Ego

• We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.

  

  William Sargant
  • True
  • Always

• In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Nature
  • Effort
  • Struggle