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Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds. — Ivan Panin

It's easy to buy. Prove that you bought at the right time and the right price. — Ivan Glasenberg

I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; — Leo Tolstoy

You'll find, Ivan, that most of the evil in the world is done by men who are addicted to their own thoughts. — Scott Stambach

The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head. — Ivan Panin

I am a rare species, not a stereotype. — Ivan E. Coyote

A painting is life and a painting is death ... the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living. — Ivan Albright

Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them. — Ivan Klima

The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people. — Ivan Sutherland

It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world. — Ivan Lendl

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art. — Ivan Turgenev

Hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole. — Ivan Doig

After his brother. He suddenly noticed that Ivan swayed — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Thou shalt not let the world make you hard — Ivan E. Coyote

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists. — Ivan Turgenev

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. — Ivan Illich

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won't see it. — Ivan Eyre

We are nor pupils neither teachers for the West. We are disciples of God and teachers for ourselves. — Ivan Ilyin

All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts. — Ivan Chtcheglov

- How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose?
- I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What are you screaming so for? — Nikolai Gogol

Everyone needs help from everyone else. — Ivan Turgenev

Know how to will, and you will be free, and will lead. — Ivan Turgenev

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal ... — Ivan Turgenev

There is an inner perfection
the same for everyone.
The psyche may go through the motions,
but it's journey is done. — Ivan M. Granger

I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum. — Ivan Glasenberg

Love has no opposite.

Hate, fear, are not love's opposites;
they are its denial. — Ivan M. Granger

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. — Ivan Illich

One doesn't know what one doesn't know. — Ivan Turgenev

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it. — Ivan Turgenev

Why should I build an asset when I can buy it more cheaply than you can build it? — Ivan Glasenberg

What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country. — Ivan Bagramyan

Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price. — Ivan Panin

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it. — Ivan Allen

The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure. — Ivan Krastev

For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache. — Ivan Panin

Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it. — Ivan Goncharov

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of. — Ivan Klima

Sometimes little things happen which seem nothing at all, but they hurt. — Ivan Turgenev

Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most. — Ivan Panin

I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job. — Ivan Konev

The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit. — Ivan Allen

We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money. — Ivan Glasenberg

To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.' — Ivan Turgenev

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities. — Ivan Glasenberg

If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself. — Ivan Lendl

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances. — Ivan Turgenev

Since the national team doesn't have a stadium yet, they'll come to play here, at Sofia airport. — Ivan Slavkov

Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark. — Ivan Illich

The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done. — Ivan Doig

We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition. — Ivan Konev

The journey of my soul does not end here on this Earth, but continues onward in Creation. Enjoy your journey, because it's Infinite! — Ivan Alexander Pozo-Illas

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. — Leo Tolstoy

When in doubt, favor compassion
over certainty or tradition. — Ivan M. Granger

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it. — Ivan Reitman

Regardless of belief or faith,
everyone is agnostic
until gnosis. — Ivan M. Granger

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by. — Ivan Turgenev

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching. — Ivan Illich

Kiddo,' he said tiredly, 'you have to realize, a sizable number of the population gets its start in a back seat, that's just life. — Ivan Doig

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue. — Ivan Panin

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery. — Ivan Illich

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself. — Ivan Lendl

In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action. — Orson Scott Card

It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere. — Ivan Turgenev

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. — Ivan Pavlov

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature. — Ivan Turgenev

After all, when you think of it, nothing is stronger in the world...and weaker--than a word! — Ivan Turgenev

Oh we have hard times to live through, those of us who are born spectators. — Ivan Turgenev

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. — Ivan Illich

The best thing at the tournament were the cheerleaders. — Ivan Slavkov

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife. — Ivan Panin

If i think about us logically, there is no chance for us. But logic doesn't produce magic. — Cristian Peter Marinescu-Ivan

Death is something ancient, but it comes fresh to each of us. — Ivan Turgenev

Yes, and I think I will have enough strength to live and love my whole life through. One without the other is impossible.
p. 265 — Ivan Goncharov

Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself. — Ivan Panin

I have read that the finest Persian carpets would have one strand deliberately left astray, to avoid the sin of pride that perfection might bring. — Ivan Doig

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school. — Ivan Illich

My dear Natalya Petrovna, there's funny and funny. — Ivan Turgenev

Nature's not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it. — Ivan Turgenev

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it. — Ivan Panin

I never started from ideas but always from character. — Ivan Turgenev

the sound of one's own voice has a powerful effect on any man, — Ivan Turgenev

The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place — Ivan Illich

It's funny about imagination, how it — Ivan Doig

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. — Ivan Chermayeff

I feel good ... considering I managed to wake up. — Ivan Slavkov

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts. — Ivan Pavlov

Belonging to oneself
the whole essence of life lies in that. — Ivan Turgenev

First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football.
(on Bulgarian journalists) — Ivan Slavkov

Let that charged space
spark inside you and flash. — Ivan M. Granger

Absolute love, heals absolutely. — Ivan Alexander Pozo-Illas

You're a bad girl, trying to force me over the edge ... But you don't have to. I'm already there. I'm already lost in you. — Charlotte Stein

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse. — Ivan Reitman

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams. — Ivan Chtcheglov

I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death — Ivan Illich

How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness. — Ivan Panin

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands ... that can do your brain. — Ivan Stoikov

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great. — Ivan Lendl

Once you have gathered enough silence,
silence gathers you. — Ivan M. Granger

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying. — Ivan Klima

Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts. — Ivan Panin