Bolesław Prus Quotes

Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.

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• I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • Sacrifice

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Different
  • Perfect

• I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Kids
  • Perfect
  • Day

• Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Control
  • Perfect
  • Democracy

• What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Done
  • Perfect

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Think
  • Perfect

• We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Perfect
  • Woman
  • Discipline

• To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Perfect
  • Many
  • Moderation

• All of my characters are less than perfect.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Perfect
  • Characters
  • Less

• I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Perfect
  • Honest
  • Nostalgia

• The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • May
  • Perfect

• May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • May
  • Perfect

• Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Perfect
  • Excellence
  • Strive

• People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Different
  • Lost

• Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Perfect
  • Same
  • Neighbor

• The fact that I fell in love with Meghan so incredibly quickly was sort of confirmation to me that all the stars were aligned; everything was just perfect. It was this beautiful woman just sort of literally tripped and fell into my life; I fell into her life.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen.

  

  David Blaine
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• The individual aspiration is always defeated of its perfect fruition and expression, but it is never lost; it passes into the conglomerate being of the race. The way to encourage yourself about the human race is to look at it first from a distance; look at the lights on the high spots.

  

  Don Marquis
  • High
  • Lost
  • Perfect

• I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Artist
  • Painting
  • See

• Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Born
  • Living
  • Cellar

• Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.

  

  Bolesław Prus
  • Perfect
  • Happiness
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