Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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• Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • She
  • Blast
  • Sharon

• Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Tell
  • Reveal

• A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Long
  • Hate
  • Democracy

• I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Children
  • Book
  • Hope

• I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Important
  • Truthful
  • Paycheck

• Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird beam from the Moth Signal summoned the Gangland Guardian to the aid of desperate criminals ?And who can forget the eerie Moth Cave where new and startling implements of crime were produced by this evil genius !

  

  Bob Kane
  • Remember
  • Evil
  • Weird

• Give. Even when you know you can get nothing back.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Giving
  • Knows

• Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Opinion

• I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse and revile me. Let some call me a medium, and a Spiritualist, and others an imposter. The day will come when posterity will learn to know me better.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • People
  • Truth
  • Help

• I am certain that if I have any merit, it is knowing how to make good use of my eyes, to guide the camera in its task of capturing not only colors, lights and shadows, but the movement of life itself.

  

  Gabriel Figueroa
  • Life
  • Good
  • Light

• Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Evil

• Again; in the tenth chapter of Deuteronomy we have the expression, “For Jehovah your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords.”[318] And numerous are the Scriptural assertions that Jehovah is highly exalted above all gods, to be feared above all gods, and so on. If, then. He executed judgment upon the gods of Egypt, they must have been living beings: if He is contrasted with other gods, they must be real existences.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Expression
  • Chapter
  • Deuteronomy

• a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Men
  • Writing

• ...kidnappings, vanishings, 'what if' scenarios about how to get Republicans out of the White House if they'd got in.

  

  Cedric Bixler-Zavala At the Drive-In
  • White House
  • Kidnappings
  • Vanishings

• I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Want
  • Beginning
  • Talk

• At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge period of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Wind
  • Natural gas
  • Midwest corridor

• There are issues in this country that a lot of people feel strongly about.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Country
  • Feel
  • Issues

• I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.

  

  Aharon Appelfeld
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Generations

• ...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.

  

  David Fairchild
  • Children
  • American
  • Growing

• Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Generations