Nevsky Prospect Quotes

#1. Not cocky overconfidence that comes from collecting biased information and ignoring uncertainties, but the real confidence that comes from knowing you've made the best decision that you could.

Chip Heath

#2. Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.

Simon Sinek

#3. Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance.

Phyllis Diller

#4. When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

Christine Pelosi

#5. I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.

Anton Chekhov

#6. We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

C.V. Wedgwood

#7. Dark vaild Cotytto, t' whom the secret flame
Of mid-night Torches burns; mysterious Dame
That ne're art call'd, but when the Dragon woom
Of Stygian darknes spets her thickest gloom,
And makes one blot of all the ayr

John Milton

#8. The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

Grayson Perry

#9. An idle life cannot be pure.

Anton Chekhov

#10. To slay a lion, slay the one inside of you first.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

Richard M. Weaver

#12. The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted.

Gary Shteyngart

#13. As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

Juliet Aubrey

#14. In the countryside, secrets have a short lifespan

Ignazio Silone

#15. An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!

Mehmet Murat Ildan