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Us Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick…
- In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!
- And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve…
- 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…
- 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:…
- ...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was.…
- After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain…
- The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
- A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
- Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains…
- Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many…
- Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money.…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong