Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Quotes
Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Ovid
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
Sam Levenson
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
Sam Altman
In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
Saina Nehwal
But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
Adam Johnson
I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
Barry Larkin
Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
Nathan Lane
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle
I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
Taylor Momsen
At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
Randeep Hooda
At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.
Jason Statham
There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.
John Kricfalusi
I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.
Will Oldham
I want to be free... free to develop my art.
Natalia Makarova
Choosing to mother your kids full-time may seem to some the easy choice, eschewing as it does the stresses and strains of the workplace, but one of the continuing frustrations for women is the lack of respect they get for taking on the responsibility for domestic life, whether they're also working outside the home or not.
Mariella Frostrup
Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
