Chekhovian Drama Quotes & Sayings

To be in charge as a parent means inspiring your children to motivate themselves. — Hal Edward Runkel

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it. — Lord Byron

A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride. — Newton Gatambia

Florence Nightendick — V. Theia

A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there. — Lil' Wayne

Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. Walt Whitman — Jed McKenna

I followed the river to the shallows where it spoke of its bed, in whispering tones as gentle as the sun's growing warmth. — Miles Richardson

Tis one thing, brother Shandy, for a soldier to hazard his own life - to leap first down into the trench, where he is sure to be cut in pieces: - 'Tis one thing, from public spirit and a thirst of glory, to enter the breach the first man, - To stand in the foremost rank, and march bravely on with drums and trumpets, and colours flying about his ears: - 'Tis one thing, I say, brother Shandy, to do this, - and 'tis another thing to reflect on the miseries of war; - to view the desolations of whole countries, and consider the intolerable fatigues and hardships which the soldier himself, the instrument who works them, is forced (for sixpence a day, if he can get it) to undergo. — Anonymous

When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older. — Larry Dixon

Fucking hell, Woods!' squealed Decker. 'You really are retarded!' Or he squealed something similar. I was no longer listening. He now held the book aloft and was waving it around like the monkey with the bone at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey. — Gavin Extence

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side. — Jenkin Lloyd Jones

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone. — Celia Johnson

Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an understanding that you could make a way out of no way, and that's how they survived. — Grace Lee Boggs

In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these plots composed only about 2% of the agricultural lands in the Soviet Union, they produced 25% of the food! When Soviets kept the wealth they created, they produced almost 16 times more than when it was taken from them at gunpoint, if necessary! — Mary Ruwart