Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there's no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.Wislawa Szymborska
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
A. J. P. Taylor -
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
Francesca Lia Block -
My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
Eddie Redmayne -
I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
Nargis Fakhri -
I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
Adam Carolla -
The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
Vanessa Paradis
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
Park Geun-hye -
When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
Randy Johnson -
The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
Walter Cronkite -
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
Dan Savage -
What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
Oleg Cassini -
Events tend to recur in cycles.
W. Clement Stone
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I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.
Dacre Montgomery -
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan -
I write novels and other things.
Jack L. Chalker -
How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
Jackie Robinson -
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger -
The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
Malcolm McDowell
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I believe in my music.
Ralph Stanley -
I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.
Lucy Walker -
Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting.
Teju Cole -
Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there's no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.
Wislawa Szymborska