Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits? - Anton Chekhov

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

Anton Chekhov

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Catholic, Merit, Merits, Virtue, Words

Same Author Quotes

Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

April, Morning, Sleep, Stars

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Husband, Moon, Promise, Sky, Wife

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

Discipline, Good, People, Plenty, Precise

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

Beings, Butterfly, Lovely, Nature, Round, Turns

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

Angry, Heart, Integrity, Laughing, Relations, Sincerity

Similar Quotes

Will Forte

I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.

Fast, Thinking, Together, Worked, Write, Writing

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

Born, Death, Forever, Islands, Ocean, Stars

Ciara

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

Believe, Happen, Powerful, Say, Things, Trying

Nick Offerman

It's irrelevant to me if other people know who I am. I'm just, I'm really happy. It calms me down, too. If you're on top of an oilrig, fighting with politicians, or whatever - you need a bit of wisdom to realize that you're not always right, or that you're not always being reasonable, or you're not always listening.

Fighting, Oilrig, People, Reasonable, Who I Am, Wisdom

Gina McCarthy

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

Health, Levels, Pollution, Reduced, Reductions, Risk