Anton Chekhov Quotes

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

Anton Chekhov

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• The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Gift

• With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Children
  • Myself

• I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Person
  • Sensitive

• I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nothing
  • Calmness
  • Aggravating

• I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Father
  • Own
  • My Own

• I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Different
  • Real

• I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Freedom
  • Expression

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• My family and friends treat me as they always have.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Treat

• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• I don't have time to be that girl who does the super workout. But I try to be as fit as possible, given my schedule. Even if I do 20 minutes a day, it's better than nothing.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Day

• I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Kind
  • Pleasant
  • Embarrassed

• You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• Stay calm and aggressive.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Calm
  • Stay
  • Aggressive

• Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Community
  • Respect

• If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • You
  • Let Go

• I'm bad; I wear trainers with everything: with a dress, skirts, all of that.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Bad
  • Everything
  • Dress

• Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But we can ennoble and enrich our viewers and ourselves in our journey through this good time, this precious time, this great and wonderful experience we call life.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Honor

• Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Money
  • Running
  • Die

• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• There is no power without justice.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Power
  • Justice

• Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Honor