Bolesław Prus Quotes
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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 -
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell -
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
Barry Mann -
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
E. L. Doctorow -
I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
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
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Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
Adam Grant -
Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
Marcia Wallace -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
Nadine Gordimer -
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 -
Humor is the harmony of the heart.
Douglas Jerrold -
There are a lot of people on Instagram desperately trying to keep up with the Joneses.
Eva Chen -
Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
Andrew Vachss
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As a professional athlete, I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before. And not one of them has ever hurt me in a fist-fight, either. The only thing that has helped me is my skills and the only thing that hurt me is my opponent's skills.
Chael Sonnen -
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
Jules Verne -
Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
Bolesław Prus