Witold Gombrowicz Quotes

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

Witold Gombrowicz

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• But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • You

• Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Want
  • Dresses

• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Play
  • Player
  • Enough

• I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Success

• My daughter passed away in 2003.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Daughter
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  • Passed

• When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Future
  • Mistake

• We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Know
  • Company
  • Stars

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Peace
  • Independence
  • Africa

• We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Bad
  • History
  • Organization

• A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Responsibility

• I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Know
  • Always

• Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Time
  • Women
  • Fall

• If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Artist
  • Fight
  • Choice

• I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Music
  • Story

• My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Perseverance

• Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Remember
  • Piano
  • Early

• My main thing is music; it's what I do.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Thing
  • Main Thing

• There's been an enormous awakening, and I think recognition that the mass shootings we saw in Sandy Hook and other places are very related to the shootings we see every day in our cities.

  

  Elizabeth Esty

• I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Novel

• Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

  

  William Golding
  • Long
  • Simple
  • Imagination

• I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Honor
  • Solitude