Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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• The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Work
  • Success
  • Guys

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Google never knew how successful key words would be.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Words
  • Successful
  • Key

• God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Film
  • Very

• I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • You
  • Watches

• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Love
  • Power
  • For Her

• I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Film
  • English
  • Release

• My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.

  

  Zendaya
  • Used
  • Room
  • Full

• If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany, to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified. But I do not believe in any war. A discussion of the pros and cons of such a war is therefore outside my horizon or province.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • War
  • Humanity

• When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Earth
  • Hand

• We have large armies, well disciplined and appointed, with commanders inferior to none in military skill, and superior in activity and zeal. We are furnished with arsenals and stores beyond our most sanguine expectations.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Military

• Things as they are have been destroyed. Have I? Am I a man that is dead At a table on which the food is cold? Is my thought a memory, not alive? Is the spot on the floor, there, wine or blood And whichever it may be, is it mine?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • May
  • Food
  • Cold

• And I stare at the phone, he still hasn't called.And then you feel so low you can't feel nothing at all.And you flash back to when he said forever and always.Oh, and it rains in your bedroom,Everything is wrong.It rains when you're here and it rains when you're gone.'Cause I was there when you said forever and always.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Forever

• Alas! for him whose youthful fireIs vowed and wasted on the lyre,-Alas! for him who shall essay,The laurel's long and dreary way!Mocking will greet, neglect will chillHis spirit's gush, his bosom's thrill;And, worst of all, that heartless praiseEchoed from what another says.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Long
  • Heartless

• The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Men
  • Women
  • Class

• Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Hair
  • Despair

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• If the US and Europe genuinely support the people, as they say, they must not betray our peaceful revolution. It is the expression of the democratic will of the overwhelming majority of the people of Yemen.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Support
  • Revolution

• Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Men
  • Doubt
  • Stupid