Adam Mickiewicz Quotes

My heart stopped, my breast frozen, my lips and eyes barred. Still in the world, but not of the world. Here, yet already departed.

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• In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • River

• I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Never
  • Circumstances
  • Blamed

• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Pain
  • Makes
  • Chicken

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• Humor is an antidote to all ills.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Humor
  • Antidote
  • Ills

• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Shakespeare

• I wasn't a great debater.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Great

• As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Gay
  • My Life

• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Time
  • Free
  • Growth

• I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Work
  • Passion

• I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

  

  J. Tillman
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Stop

• As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Deep
  • Rap

• You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.

  

  Damon Knight
  • May
  • You
  • Learning

• It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the 'cooler,' and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Cold

• I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.

  

  Eminem
  • Blue

• Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Discipline

• The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • World
  • War
  • Beginning

• I can remember back to my early tour days when some fellows didn't think I'd last too long. Nothing physical - they said it was my swing. Some said it was too much of a 'muscle swing' to stand the test of time. One fellow predicted I wouldn't get past 30 out there.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Remember

• O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Book
  • Day
  • Either

• In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • American
  • Stop
  • Struggle

• When you lose a mother or father, it's still the hardest time of your life.

  

  Freddie Freeman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mother

• Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Great
  • Men
  • Heart

• My heart stopped, my breast frozen, my lips and eyes barred. Still in the world, but not of the world. Here, yet already departed.

  

  Adam Mickiewicz
  • World
  • Heart
  • Lips