Ilych's Quotes

#1. So on receiving the news of Ivan Ilych's death the first thought of each of the gentlemen in that private room was of the changes and promotions it might occasion among themselves

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Giving a piece of your life daily through employment makes you empty

Sunday Adelaja

#4. What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#5. What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and that he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off.
So do fundamentalists.

Ed Seykota

#7. Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are
generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues.

Steve Krug

#8. Absolute autonomy inevitably leads to tyranny.

Jack Provonsha

#9. Bitterness has not the capacity to make the distinction between some and all. When some members of the dominant group, particularly those in power, are racist in attitude and practice, bitterness accuses the whole group.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Ring Lardner

#11. It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.

Emily Mortimer

#12. To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#13. Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

Peyton Manning

#14. And if I spend resources I don't have, I will eventually bankrupt myself.

Lysa TerKeurst

#15. If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers.

Pauline Marois

#16. Your solution lies not in finding favor before men but before God. Learn to seek Him for your problems and His favor will meet you.

Paul Gitwaza

#17. As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.

Terry Crews

#18. Have to wait my turn.
Have to follow the rules.
Have to smile like I agree.
Have to
Have to
Have to
Have to
Choose him.

Holly Bodger

#19. Conversation sprang up as to the elegance and realism of her acting -- the sort of conversation that is always repeated and is always the same. In the midst of the conversation Fedor Petrovich glanced at Ivan Ilych and became silent. The others also looked at him and grew silent. Ivan

Leo Tolstoy