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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one. (Anton Chekhov)
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games. View quote
Anton Chekhov
To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards. View quote
Anton Chekhov
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Between "there is a God" and "there is no God" lies a whole vast tract, which the really wise man crosses with great effort. A Russian knows one or other of these two extremes, and the middle tract between them does not interest him; and therefore he usually knows nothing, or very little. View quote
Anton Chekhov
I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way. View quote
Charles Dickens
Minerva House was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. View quote
Charles Dickens
To design a flying machine is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. View quote
Otto Lilienthal
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense. View quote
Adolf Galland
The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief. (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon)
If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Without a People's army, the people have nothing. View quote
Mao Zedong
Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
nothing in this world was more difficult than love. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices. View quote
Francis Jeffrey
Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour. View quote
Barbara Tuchman