Onegin Eugene Quotes & Sayings

For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante. — Robert Gottlieb

But there are times when patience proves at fault. — Robert Browning

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts. — Swami Sivananda

Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going into her room, the girl swiftly threw off her dress and let her hair down. Then she quickly sat at the table in her petticoat and white bodice to write a letter like Tatyana's.
'I love you,' she wrote, 'but you don't love me, you don't love me!'
Having written this, she laughed.
She was only sixteen and had never loved anyone yet. She knew that Gorny (an army officer) and Gruzdyov (a student) were both in love with her, but now, after the opera, she wanted to doubt their love. To be unloved and miserable: what an attractive idea! There was something beautiful, touching and romantic about A loving B when B wasn't interested in A. Onegin was attractive in not loving at all, while Tatyana was enchanting because she loved greatly. Had they loved equally and been happy they might have seemed boring.
("After The Theatre") — Anton Chekhov

Angel away yeah strange in a way Maybe that is why I chase strangers away — Nicki Minaj

We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers ... we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it. — Katherine Hannigan

If you think peace is a common goal, that goes to show how little you know — Morrissey

Spring is a powerful spell.
The blue. The clouds high up and puffy. The air warmer than it's been for weeks. — Jenny Downham

He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you. Certainly he knew (though did not completely understand) that opera wasn't for everyone, but for everyone he hoped there was something. The records he cherished, the rare opportunities to see a live performance, those were the marks by which he gauged his ability to love. — Ann Patchett

Some 70% to 80% of all who join the military will return to the civilian workforce. They'll return to communities, and one of the things I've worried about is the increasing disconnect between the American people and our men and women in uniform. We come from fewer and fewer places. We're less than 1% of the population. — Michael Mullen

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves. — Peter Gavin Hall

We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up. — Benedict Wong