Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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• 'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Political
  • Years
  • Politics

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Up
  • Law
  • Years

• I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Years
  • Story
  • Toy

• I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Family
  • Prison
  • Human Rights

• Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Years
  • Own
  • List

• I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Years
  • Problems
  • Over

• For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Father
  • Years
  • Railroad

• The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Prison
  • Percent
  • Facilities

• Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • America
  • Christian
  • Years

• Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Children
  • Years
  • Graduation

• I came to Christ in my early 20s.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Christ
  • Early
  • Early 20s

• In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

  

  Ralph Regula
  • Years
  • Changes
  • Congress

• I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Death
  • Years
  • Everyday

• There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Years
  • First
  • Worse

• The origins of Indian classical music, not unlike their western counterparts, lie in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures of 2,000 years ago.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Music
  • Years
  • Lie

• One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Things
  • Prison
  • Lessons

• When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Years
  • Said
  • Opinions

• It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Law
  • Years
  • Make

• I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Years
  • Lines
  • Broadway

• The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Walk

• The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Result

• Of course, eating broccoli raw, nutritionally and aesthetically speaking, is no doubt the best way of all. Raw broccoli makes a delectable salad when sliced into thin strips on a mandolin, marinated in lemon-mustard vinaigrette, then tossed with toasted pecans or hazelnuts, halved cherry tomatoes, and fresh minced basil.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Best
  • Doubt
  • Eating

• How many prison years in the years since Christ!

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Years
  • Christ
  • Prison