Kov Cechov Quotes & Sayings

I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook. — J. D. Souther

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed. — Phyllis Bottome

We must believe, but we can't believe. Perhaps this is the tragedy that some of us see in Obama: a change we can believe in and the crushing realisation that nothing will change. — Simon Critchley

But she realized that modern homemaking could be creatively fulfilling in a way she'd never imagined. Unlike previous generations of housewives, who Erika imagines were bored and dissatisfied, Erika says women her age treat the duties of the home as outlets for their creativity. — Emily Matchar

sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, — George Eliot

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook. — Ronald Reagan

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! — Terry Pratchett

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. — Paul Gallico

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now. — Cormac McCarthy

If somebody has a monopoly position, and wants to keep that monopoly position, it means that you are effectively shutting out competition from other sources. — Alexander Stille

we may say that History develops, Art stands still — E. M. Forster

Then find someone to lean on. They are out there waiting for you, they just don't know you, but they want to help. You just have to reach out. — Jackie Nacht