Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOV The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
ANTON CHEKHOV We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOV To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
ANTON CHEKHOV There is nothing new in art except talent.
ANTON CHEKHOV Only entropy comes easy.
ANTON CHEKHOV A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't...
ANTON CHEKHOV If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
ANTON CHEKHOV Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
ANTON CHEKHOV The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
ANTON CHEKHOV You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness f...
ANTON CHEKHOV Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity ...
ANTON CHEKHOV A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
ANTON CHEKHOV If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter
ANTON CHEKHOV Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
ANTON CHEKHOV Medvienko: Why do you always wear black? Masha: I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy.
ANTON CHEKHOV Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOV When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
ANTON CHEKHOV Another piece of advice: when you proofread cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. You...
ANTON CHEKHOV One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
ANTON CHEKHOV The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the...
ANTON CHEKHOV When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
ANTON CHEKHOV Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night wi...
ANTON CHEKHOV Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOV Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarri...
ANTON CHEKHOV Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
ANTON CHEKHOV If you cry Forward you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that i...
ANTON CHEKHOV Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOV Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors...
ANTON CHEKHOV People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk ...
ANTON CHEKHOV Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
ANTON CHEKHOV If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
ANTON CHEKHOV Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOV Man is what he believes.
ANTON CHEKHOV We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOV People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
ANTON CHEKHOV We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOV When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when yo...
ANTON CHEKHOV Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas do...
ANTON CHEKHOV The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squab...
ANTON CHEKHOV No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the...
ANTON CHEKHOV To advise is not to compel.
ANTON CHEKHOV Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOV The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
ANTON CHEKHOV Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOV You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOV I don’t feel right about money. Remember, Anisim brought me new roubles and half roubles before th...
ANTON CHEKHOV To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow...
ANTON CHEKHOV Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Pete...
ANTON CHEKHOV Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chast...
ANTON CHEKHOV They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, ...
ANTON CHEKHOV Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
ANTON CHEKHOV Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the ...
ANTON CHEKHOV When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair...
ANTON CHEKHOV No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatan...
ANTON CHEKHOV The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reaso...
ANTON CHEKHOV A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a c...
ANTON CHEKHOV Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
ANTON CHEKHOV If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that i...
ANTON CHEKHOV If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means tat the disease is incurable.
ANTON CHEKHOV Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love ...
ANTON CHEKHOV People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOV I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas...
ANTON CHEKHOV A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
ANTON CHEKHOV Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria:

1) They respect human b...
ANTON CHEKHOV A book ought to be the ax to break the frozen sea within us.
ANTON CHEKHOV Ivanov: A naive man is a fool. But you women are clever enough to be naive so that it comes out in y...
ANTON CHEKHOV Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOV Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the n...
ANTON CHEKHOV Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally...
ANTON CHEKHOV The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOV And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fle...
ANTON CHEKHOV I cannon off the cushion! I pot into the middle pocket.
ANTON CHEKHOV It's a long time since I drank champagne.
ANTON CHEKHOV If only we could go back to Moscow! Sell the house, finish with our life here, and go back to Moscow...
ANTON CHEKHOV When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
ANTON CHEKHOV He was a rationalist, but he had to confess that he liked the ringing of church bells.
ANTON CHEKHOV People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them
ANTON CHEKHOV If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
ANTON CHEKHOV An artist must only judge what he understands; his field is just as restricted as any other speciali...
ANTON CHEKHOV The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason ...
ANTON CHEKHOV People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
ANTON CHEKHOV Man is what he believes
ANTON CHEKHOV Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night wi...
ANTON CHEKHOV It seemed that the next minute they would discover a solution. Yet it was clear to both of them that...
ANTON CHEKHOV When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
ANTON CHEKHOV Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It d...
ANTON CHEKHOV How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
ANTON CHEKHOV When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.
ANTON CHEKHOV Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him...
ANTON CHEKHOV I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerin...
ANTON CHEKHOV The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOV acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend
ANTON CHEKHOV Any idiot can face a crisis, it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOV Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is us...
ANTON CHEKHOV Liubov Andreevna: Are you still a student? Trofimov: I expect I shall be a student to the end of my ...
ANTON CHEKHOV The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.
ANTON CHEKHOV In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from ...
ANTON CHEKHOV Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."

ANTON CHEKHOV Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and d...
ANTON CHEKHOV Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to ...
ANTON CHEKHOV There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who h...
ANTON CHEKHOV Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the n...
ANTON CHEKHOV Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going ...
ANTON CHEKHOV He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
ANTON CHEKHOV At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a c...
ANTON CHEKHOV I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and wo...
ANTON CHEKHOV If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see th...
ANTON CHEKHOV The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob ...
ANTON CHEKHOV An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains
ANTON CHEKHOV Conciseness is the sister of talent
ANTON CHEKHOV Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
ANTON CHEKHOV The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything
ANTON CHEKHOV But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you poss...
ANTON CHEKHOV When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
ANTON CHEKHOV They were tough and sour, but as Pushkin said, 'Dearer to us than a host of truths is an exalting il...
ANTON CHEKHOV These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their t...
ANTON CHEKHOV I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To ...
ANTON CHEKHOV Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
ANTON CHEKHOV When a woman is plain, people say, 'What beautiful eyes you have, beautiful hair.
ANTON CHEKHOV When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
ANTON CHEKHOV It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
ANTON CHEKHOV You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood...
ANTON CHEKHOV April was just beginning, and after the warm spring day it turned cooler, slightly frosty, and a bre...
ANTON CHEKHOV When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean, that's faith; when y...
ANTON CHEKHOV When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader ...
ANTON CHEKHOV Ivanov: No, my clever young thing, it's not a question of romance. I say as before God that I will e...
ANTON CHEKHOV The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of...
ANTON CHEKHOV People don't notice wheter it's winter or summer when they're happy.
ANTON CHEKHOV I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every d...
ANTON CHEKHOV LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ough...
ANTON CHEKHOV Сотни верст пустынной, однообразной, выгоревшей степи ...
ANTON CHEKHOV What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
ANTON CHEKHOV A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistr...
ANTON CHEKHOV The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this sile...
ANTON CHEKHOV Не говори мне, луна светит; покажите мне отблеск света �...
ANTON CHEKHOV Nu-i nimic, mi-e mai uşor pe suflet dacă plâng...
ANTON CHEKHOV There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is...
ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
CHEKHOV In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I go...
ANTON CORBIJN I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I expre...
ANTON YELCHIN Conciseness is the sister of talent.
ANTON CHECKHOV I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it...
ANTON CORBIJN I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
ANTON CORBIJN There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
SUSAN ANTON The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
ANTON SEIDL Of course, experience strengthens one later.
ANTON SEIDL Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
ANTON SEIDL It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its...
ANTON SEIDL It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing th...
ANTON SEIDL I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparent...
ANTON SEIDL I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German ar...
ANTON SEIDL Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real ...
ANTON SEIDL Composers are not all good conductors.
ANTON SEIDL America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music school...
ANTON SEIDL I don't see how Lehman shares can go up meaningfully from here. This is a record valuation for them....
ANTON SCHUTZ These are all steps in the right direction. Clearly the sale of the aircraft unit is a positive. I h...
ANTON SCHUTZ This is a precursor to a deal -- but I would not look for something that changes the face of the fra...
ANTON SCHUTZ Mack is not going to sell damaged goods. If he can fix it, he'll get a higher price.
ANTON SCHUTZ Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love
ANTON LAVEY I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it arou...
ANTON LAVEY The Black Dahlia, she was someone who was just waiting for an executioner, waiting for it to happen....
ANTON LAVEY The carnival was the predecessor to the burlesque world-this all tied together, the psychic, the hyp...
ANTON LAVEY I tend to clam up with a tape recorder in front of me-I hesitate for prudent reasons, so I don't say...
ANTON LAVEY A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, ...
ANTON LAVEY Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do any...
ANTON LAVEY We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime agains...
ANTON LAVEY I see nothing wrong with robbing somebody on the street.
ANTON LAVEY Hitler's greatest mistake was in, not his bringing together some of the things he tried to bring tog...
ANTON LAVEY It is possible this could be a bluff from the government to push both parties to come to the negotia...
ANTON GUNAWAN BI will wait until the electricity hike is revealed.
ANTON GUNAWAN The sharp downtrend is unlikely to be sustainable particularly from year-end onward because of the s...
ANTON GUNAWAN The sharp downtrend is unlikely to be sustainable particularly from year-end onward because of the s...
ANTON GUNAWAN This is slightly positive for investors' perceptions, especially foreigners, in the sense that it ha...
ANTON GUNAWAN We are deeply pleased that the government has agreed to the smooth implementation of the ceasefire a...
ANTON BALASINGHAM The government has agreed to implement a clause in the agreement in relation to the paramilitary gro...
ANTON BALASINGHAM We are deeply pleased that the government has agreed to the smooth implementation of the cease-fire ...
ANTON BALASINGHAM On our part we have given our assurance there will be no act of violence by the L.T.T.E. against gov...
ANTON BALASINGHAM Even if the issues discussed transcend the confines of the text of the original truce, they cannot b...
ANTON BALASINGHAM On our part we have pledged that there will be no acts of violence. At the same time we want the gov...
ANTON BALASINGHAM The agenda is one line, but there are one thousand matters to discuss (on the ceasefire).
ANTON BALASINGHAM It will lead to conditions of war and violence and it will block any forward movement of the peace t...
ANTON BALASINGHAM It would serve no meaningful purpose if we enter into a recriminatory debate, making accusations and...
ANTON BALASINGHAM As far as the Liberation Tigers are concerned, I can assure you that we are seriously and sincerely ...
ANTON BALASINGHAM Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will cont...
ANTON ALAM Anarchy is a form of crime ... We will search the perpetrators, detain them and bring them to trial.
ANTON ALAM We are now looking for those responsible for the destruction of the police office. We will summon fi...
ANTON ALAM All of the protesters left after conducting a tribal ceremony. There is no more blockade and all acc...
ANTON ALAM It was a high explosive bomb but at this stage we are still investigating the type of bomb, whether ...
ANTON ALAM We had watched (the militant group) for three months and we wanted to capture him soon. But he was n...
ANTON ALAM But we have not yet launched a probe into the report. We are still focusing on the investigation int...
ANTON ALAM I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photogr...
ANTON CORBIJN I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the st...
ANTON CORBIJN Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each ...
ANTON YELCHIN I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
ANTON YELCHIN My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into...
ANTON CORBIJN I love Andy Warhol!
ANTON YELCHIN