Petrovna Quotes

#1. Anna Petrovna: I am beginning to think, doctor, that fate has cheated me. The majority of people, who maybe are no better than I am, are happy and pay nothing for that happiness. I have paid for everything, absolutely everything! And how dearly! Why have I paid such terrible interest?

Anton Chekhov

#2. The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#3. A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#4. If you want women to love you, then don't be cross in front of them and don't go all pompous ... -Anna Petrovna in Ivanov

Anton Chekhov

#5. There is no higher religion than the truth.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#6. My dear Natalya Petrovna, there's funny and funny.

Ivan Turgenev

#7. Most one run games are lost, not won.

Gene Mauch

#8. Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed already to have sunk into that quiet repose which possesses everything on earth wherever there is no restless human infection to affect it.

Ivan Turgenev

#9. I gave everything for you, Vasilisa Petrovna.'
'Not everything,' said Vasya. 'Since clearly your pride is intact, as well as your illusions.

Katherine Arden

#10. Before the soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#11. But pity was not action. It was not love. Pity, like passion, was no more than a kind of instinct.

Shusaku Endo

#12. Gently to hear, kindly to judge." - SHAKESPEARE.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#13. Perhaps I shall be obliged, in order not to peter out, to invent another fairy-tale, yet another, with heads, trunks, arms, legs and all that follows, let loose in the changeless round of imperfect shadow and dubious light.

Samuel Beckett

#14. When there were no churches, no creeds or sects, but when every man was a priest unto himself

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#15. Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#16. At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament ... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

Lara Giddings

#17. I shivered. The story was true. The Wizard of Oz had been real. Dorothy Gale had really been swept up by a tornado and brought to the Land of Oz. True, what I was living now didn't seem like the kind of storybook tale I was used to. But it didn't mean they didn't exist.

Danielle Paige

#18. There's a great quote from the movie Almost Famous that says, The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

Brene Brown

#19. I enjoy doing autograph sessions because I'm a people-watcher. I'm the guy in the airport who likes to just sit and watch people go by. So I enjoy just meeting people and hearing their stories.

Joey Logano

#20. The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#21. Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

Bainbridge Colby

#22. Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Anton Chekhov

#23. I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.

William John Locke

#24. What writes history is the power of ideas. And every moment offers the potential to write something new.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#25. Theosophy is who Theosophy does, not thinks, not studies, not feels but does.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#26. Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#27. No man can swim unless he enters deep water.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#28. Flowing down upon his shoulders," and as "having

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#29. The good gringo asked Lupe if she forgave him for sleeping with her mother. "Yes," Lupe said, "but we can't ever get married.

John Irving