Top 5 quotes by Anton Chekhov

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

Dalai Lama quotes

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Sleep is the best meditation.

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Famous quote by Leo Szilard

Don't lie if you don't have to.

Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

Fran Tarkenton quotes

None of us really pushes hard enough.

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

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Quotes by Jay Z

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

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Top 5 quotes by Abdoulaye Wade

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

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Quote by Alison Bechdel

Does anal-retentive have a hyphen?

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Quote by Oliver St. John Gogarty

His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.

Top 5 quotes by Neil Innes

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.

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Fannie Lou Hamer quotes

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

Quote by Candice Bergen

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

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Famous quote by Red Buttons

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

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Quote by Liv Ullman

If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex.

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Top 5 quotes by Larry David

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

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Nolan Bushnell quotes

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

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Quotes by Ben Savage

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.

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Jack Kerouac quotes

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

I was just looking at the jukebox. Just playing records. She said, You want to play with me?
All women are nice.

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'

What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

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John Trapp quotes

Better to be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.

Unity without verity is no better than conspiracy.

Quote by Rich Hall

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine quotes

Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ... and inventors, the worst kind of jobholder! ... they stand condemned! ... the writer who doesn't pimp along, peacefully plagiarizing, who doesn't pump out the pop stuff, he's had it! ... everybody hates him!

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

From up high where I was, you could shout anything you liked at them. I tried. They made me sick, the whole lot of them. I hadn't the nerve to tell them so in the daytime, to their face, but up there it was safe. Help! Help! I shouted, just to see if it would have any effect on them. None whatsoever. Those people were pushing life and night and day in front of them. Life hides everything from people. Their own noise prevents them from hearing anything else. They couldn't care less. The bigger and taller the city, the less they care. Take it from me. I've tried. It's a waste of time.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

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Bette Midler quotes

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

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Quotes by Boris Vallejo

I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

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Quotes by Yusef Lateef

When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.

My music is jazz.

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Top 5 quotes by Germaine Greer

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

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Mandell Creighton quotes

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.