Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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• I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Perspective
  • Ambition
  • Grace

• The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Secret
  • Planning
  • German

• Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Help
  • Parents

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Idea
  • Secret
  • Normal

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

  

  Quintilian
  • Ambition
  • Parent
  • Often

• My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Good
  • Job
  • Ambition

• It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Ambition
  • Been
  • Animation

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • True
  • Poverty

• Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Past
  • Fear
  • Present

• Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Ambition
  • Sense

• I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Football
  • Ambition

• Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • World
  • Work
  • Ambition

• There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Long
  • Science
  • Relationship

• I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Wish

• I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Ambition

• As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Past
  • English
  • Ambition

• Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • You
  • Truth Is
  • Minority

• I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Lost
  • Liberty
  • Blood

• It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Time
  • May
  • Power

• Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Secret
  • Ambition
  • Terrorize