Quotes by Polish Authors - Page 2

I am tired before the concert not afterward.
Artur Rubinstein
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad
When I was young I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.
Artur Rubinstein
Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Joseph Conrad
From success you get a lot of things but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Sam Goldwyn
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad
Life holds so much so much to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions.
Artur Rubinstein
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Jacob Bronowski
The conquest of the earth which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
Joseph Conrad
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Stanislaw Lec
Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.
Joseph Conrad
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
Abraham J. Heschel
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
Joseph Conrad
We want to create an atmosphere in which creation is possible.
Marie Rambert
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Arthur Rubinstein
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo. C Rosten
When someone does something good applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
Happiness happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
Joseph Conrad
The king reigns but does not govern.
Jan Zamoyski
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was but it does not matter it does not affect one's faith.
Abraham Heschel
I think the purpose of life is to be useful to be responsible to be honorable to be compassionate. It is after all to matter: to count to stand for something to have made some difference that you lived at all.
Leo. C Rosten
To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
Joseph Conrad
Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
Ignace Jan Paderewski
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.
Joseph Conrad
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Abraham Heschel
To be alive to be able to see to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
Arthur Rubinstein
Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?
Joseph Conrad
How does one kill fear I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by the spectral throat?
Joseph Conrad
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Stanislaus I
Deep faith eliminates fear.
Lech Walesa
We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
Rosa Luxemburg
In not making the decision you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.
Ivan Bloch
You don't die in the United States you underachieve.
Jerzy Kosiński
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Frédéric Chopin
Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!
Joseph Conrad
We are all afraid - for our confidence for the future for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man every civilization has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one has made the Ascent of Man.
Jacob Bronowski
Chaplin is no businessman - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.
Sam Goldwyn
I read part of it all the way through.
Sam Goldwyn
History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Joseph Conrad
When someone does something well applaud I You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
The world is a wheel always turning philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low and those who've been low go up higher."
Anzia Yezierska
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Fridiric Chopin
Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.
Roman Polanski
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Joseph Conrad
I accept life unconditionally. ... Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Arthur Rubinstein
Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact the way the opposite poles of magnets do: they tend to gravitate towards each other.
Zygmunt Bauman
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.
Jerzy Kosiński
Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.
Alice MIller
The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.
Alice MIller
To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the workers of an armament plant who rejoice in the 'stay of execution' of their factory thanks to big new orders, while at the same time honestly bewailing the massacres visited upon each other by Ethiopians and Eritreans; or to think how it is possible that the 'fall in commodity prices' may be universally welcomed as good news while 'starvation of African children' is equally universally, and sincerely, lamented.
Zygmunt Bauman
Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it.
Zygmunt Bauman
Faced with today's problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.
John Paul II
The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skilful writers such as VM Doroshevich, the master of that semi-literary and semi-journalistic essay at which Bronstein himself was one day to excel.
Isaac Deutscher
So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to a cumulation of knowledge (of which the progress of the natural sciences provides the best example) and the advance of knowledge sooner or later undermines the traditional order. Confused thinking, on the other hand, leads nowhere in particular and can be indulged indefinitely without producing any impact upon the world.
Stanislav Andreski
The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.
Bruno Schulz