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People Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
- People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
- Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
- When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
- No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair,…
- The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal…
- People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
- My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about…
- Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people…
- It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
- Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are…
- People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance…
- All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important…
- You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
- People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
- How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
- What a delight it is to respect people!
- The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
- These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves,…
- You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think:…
- We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of…
- He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like…
- This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has…
- The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them…
- To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
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- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle