Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

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• The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • High
  • Nice

• I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Together
  • Struggle
  • Feel

• I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Live
  • Past
  • Walk

• But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Want
  • Die
  • Patriotism

• I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Life
  • Love
  • Myself

• I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Me
  • Painting

• From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Good
  • Women
  • Power

• When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Look
  • Changes
  • Survive

• I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Good
  • Work
  • Best

• I can handle coming fifth as long as I know I've given my all out there and have no regrets.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Know
  • No Regrets

• Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Speech

• Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Charity

• It certainly will be if you are still around.

  

  Oscar Levant

• I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Work
  • Money

• Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Growth

• The best employees are those who bring real energy and initiative to the job. I like to know whether you're the kind of person who can set priorities, take initiative, and drive results right from the beginning.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Real
  • Job
  • Energy

• Nutrition is so important. It can't be stressed enough.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Important

• If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Love
  • America
  • Party

• When I started doing the acoustic shows, people would be yelling for 'Hooligan's Holiday' and 'Smoke The Sky,' and I had no idea of how to pull them off.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Pull
  • No Idea
  • Acoustic

• Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Happy
  • Death
  • Strange

• The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.

  

  Arthur Holly Compton
  • World
  • Together
  • Powerful

• Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Common
  • Grind