Bunin Quotes

#1. "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."

Anton Chekhov

#2. Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

Ivan Bunin

#3. Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.

Ivan Bunin

#4. I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

Landon Donovan

#5. We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.

Richard Shelby

#6. And the years came and went, the decades. But now it's no longer possible to put it off any more: either now or never. The one final opportunity must be taken, for the hour is late and nobody will come upon me.

Ivan Bunin

#7. Everyone is silent, under the spell of the song. But it is strange: that desperate sorrow and that bitter reproach with which it throbs are sweeter than the most sublime, most passionate joy.

Ivan Bunin

#8. It's really my fault because I continue listening to the things that you say.

Brian Clevinger

#9. The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.

Martin O'Malley

#10. You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.

Ivan Bunin

#11. She said, "'Ye can we get married at the mall?"
I said, "Look, you need to crawl 'fore you ball
Come and meet me in the bathroom stall
And show me why you deserve to have it all"

Kanye West