Anton Chekhov Quotes

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

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• I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Kindness

• By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Time
  • Live
  • War

• To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Art
  • Power

• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Really
  • Inside
  • Matters

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • May
  • Truth
  • Easy

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Long
  • May
  • Hope

• I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • People
  • Career
  • Motorcycle

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Relationship

• I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Period

• I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Love
  • Everything
  • Cooking

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Women
  • Love
  • Fall

• I was the girl who did everybody's homework, but I was also, like, student council president and yearbook editor and, like, all-around overachiever. Like, I'm disabled, but I can do anything.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Girl

• They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Bigs
  • Horrible
  • Masturbation

• America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • People
  • Heart
  • Justice

• My dad was a holistic doctor, so putting good things into my body has always been something I've strived for.

  

  Callie Hernandez
  • Good
  • Dad
  • Doctor

• Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.

  

  Donald Driver
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good
  • Strong