Anton Chekhov Quotes

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.

Anton Chekhov

• Heart
• Funny
• Silence
• Angry
• Simplicity
• Rude

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• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Deal
  • Threats
  • Ultimatums

• Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Reason
  • Emotion

• Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Never

• I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Impossible

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Long
  • Live
  • Happily

• We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Choices
  • Need
  • Face

• Humor is an antidote to all ills.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Humor
  • Antidote
  • Ills

• Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • End
  • Fruit

• People are incredible creatures of habit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Habit
  • Creatures

• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • America
  • Hope

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

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Idea
  • Playing
  • Excited

• I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'

  

  Tao Lin
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Focus

• I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Never
  • Sex
  • Successful

• We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• President Clinton's record of advocating for the middle class and creating millions of new jobs and opportunity for Americans is second to none. I'm looking forward to campaigning with him and talking about how we keep New Hampshire moving forward and build a strong, innovative economy with the best workforce in the country.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Opportunity

• I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

  

  Frank B. Kellogg
  • World
  • Believe
  • War

• I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Laughing

• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Suffering
  • Silence

• The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Heart
  • Opportunity
  • First Thing

• There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Heart
  • Funny
  • Silence