Chekhovian Themes Quotes & Sayings

For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed. — Thomas Merton

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they're treated as public nuisances and evicted. — Robert B. Reich

My kids can't eat awards. — Pitbull

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life. — William Barrett

Khaemwaset's eyes remained on the riverbank as the green confusion of spring glided by. Beyond the fecund, brilliant life of the bank with its choked river growth, its darting, piping birds, its busy insects and occasionally its sleepy grinning crocodiles, was a wealth of rich black soil in which the fellahin were struggling, knee-deep, to strew the fresh seed. — Pauline Gedge

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
— Doris Day

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry — Thomas Cole

Well, as a former small businessperson - I understand what's going on, I think in the business community. And businesspeople around the country are looking at all the spending and all the debt. They're looking at all the policies coming out of this Congress and this administration the last two years, and they - it's created all this uncertainty. — John Boehner

[C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better to be polite than honest. — Patricia Briggs

Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think. — David Attenborough

Cut the 'I'm a bad-ass demon' crap. You have a soul. That's more than what they had. — Ashlyn Mathews

If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self worth, and you will have to go on stealing more and more and never getting fulfilled. — Dossie Easton