Anton Chekhov Quotes

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

Anton Chekhov

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• The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Chance

• The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Know

• Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Taken
  • Boy

• My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Life
  • Husband

• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Sometimes
  • Write

• Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Never
  • Better
  • Movies

• An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Miracle
  • Extraordinary

• Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Nature
  • My Life

• Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Me

• And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Work
  • Player
  • End

• America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • World
  • America
  • Light

• I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

  

  Caity Lotz
  • House
  • Hate
  • Imagination

• There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Life
  • Singing
  • My Life

• The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Nature
  • Practice
  • Service

• It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Bad

• Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.

  

  A. J. Liebling

• Importantly, rather than being solely concerned with U.N. approval, the president must come first to our own Congress for authorization, and I urge him to do so. Finally, I understand the impulse to take action in Syria; however, I hope the president carefully considers this matter and resists the call from some to use military force in Syria.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Hope
  • Action
  • Military

• We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Game

• There aren't any songs that I would call impossible to play live, but some are difficult. A lot of Queensryche songs are difficult to play live. It's quite a difficult question to answer because everybody (In the band) has their own opinion of what's difficult to play.

  

  Geoff Tate
  • Opinion
  • Difficult
  • Impossible

• History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

  

  Jon Meacham
  • America
  • History
  • Wish

• Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

  

  Anton Chekhov