Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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• They draw back into themselves, and are thrown back on their own bodies for gratification. The men become narcissistic and uncertain of the power of any woman, no matter how strange and beautiful, to arouse their desire, but the women remain continually receptive to male advances.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Friend
  • Crying
  • Dennis

• Imperfect substitutability of assets implies that changes in the supplies of various assets available to private investors may affect the prices and yields of those assets.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • May
  • Changes
  • Investors

• Many people say they're looking for love, yet they're actually committed to never finding it. Many people would really rather not know the true scars and triumphs of the person who lies in their arms.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • True
  • Lies

• A skunk by any other name still stinks.

  

  W. A. Criswell
  • Stills
  • Names
  • Stink

• Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Mean
  • Forget
  • Gratitude

• Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Expression
  • Flowers
  • Countenance

• We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Opinion
  • Consciousness
  • Claims

• While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Existence
  • Loved
  • Enjoyed

• Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Regard
  • Intelligent Man

• I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die [Hebrews 9:27], do make and ordain this my last will and testament...Principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it: and my body I recommend to the earth . . . nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mercy and power of God. . .

  

  John Hancock
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Earth

• How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Men
  • Money
  • Business

• He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Merit
  • Censor

• Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Resurrection
  • Believers
  • Atheists