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Years Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- 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,…
- [In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend]…
- I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good…
- "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I…
- An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that…
- Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.
- You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you…
- 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…
- Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz