Anton Chekhov Quotes
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one’s dignity.Anton Chekhov
Quotes to Explore
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
Maggie Hassan -
By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
Rachel Bloom -
I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
Yair Lapid -
I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
Nadine Velazquez -
It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
Nancy Kerrigan
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
Kate Adie -
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen -
I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
Jack Kerouac -
When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
Parvesh Cheena -
It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
Carly Fiorina -
Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
Ian Anderson
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead -
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Baltasar Gracian -
Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
Abraham Lincoln -
I enjoy money.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters -
I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
Gabriela Isler -
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
Garry Trudeau
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My priority is always playing tennis and practising and doing my schedule with my tennis.
Angelique Kerber -
I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
J. B. Smoove -
You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
LeBron James -
The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
Boris Becker -
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
Ian Frazier -
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one’s dignity.
Anton Chekhov