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Quotes by Polish Authors
"If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God."
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
"Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port."
"Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics."
"I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking."
"Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow."
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
"I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name."
"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
"It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century."
"Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort."
"I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly."
"Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941."
"Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived."
"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
"If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit."
"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day."
"Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit."
"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."
"Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above."
"No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority."
"Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero."
"A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet."
"When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers."
"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway."
"It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph."
"They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance."
"I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit."
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