Anton Chekhov Quotes

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

Anton Chekhov

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• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • You
  • Anger
  • Guilt

• Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Job
  • Help
  • Guy

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Write

• I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Down

• What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Game
  • New York
  • Media

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Movie

• Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Ideas
  • Become
  • Approach

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Believe
  • Hard
  • I Believe

• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Today
  • Information

• I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Me
  • Stop

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Together
  • Energy

• There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Children
  • Charge

• I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Comedy

• If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

  

  Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Society
  • Free

• God is an all – encompassing love that is the source of all, the reality of all, and the being through which I am.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Love
  • Reality

• I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • God
  • Free
  • Regret