Bolesław Prus Quotes

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

Bolesław Prus

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• When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
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• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
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• You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

  

  Barry Mann
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• The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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• I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
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• Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
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  • Unexpected

• Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

  

  Marcia Wallace
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Life
  • Up
  • Boy

• Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Life
  • Design
  • Planning

• Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • War
  • Small
  • Peace

• Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Life
  • Death
  • Society

• I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • World
  • Bird
  • Stronger

• The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Prison
  • Eagles
  • Zoos

• Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Comedy
  • Certain
  • Ends

• Think of one structural change in 11 years he made, other than being just doling out money in the annual Budget? And don't say the GST because Howard did that and it wasn't a structural change anyway, just a change in the tax system. This is a low flying person.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Persons
  • Flying
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• When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

  

  Karen Russell
  • Kids
  • Secret
  • Hard

• Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.

  

  David Deida
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Giving

• The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Strong
  • Sometimes

• Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

  

  Bolesław Prus
  • Emotion
  • Recipient