Chmielinski Wladyslaw Quotes & Sayings

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. — Marc Bloch

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. — Vaclav Havel

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder. — Martin Luther

Hail Mary, Forgive me,
Blood for blood, hearts beating,
come at me,
now this is war! — Pierce The Veil

Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks. — Jo Nesbo

London opens to you like a novel itself. [ ... ] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand. — Anna Quindlen

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth cannot be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society - the farmers, mechanics, and laborers - who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government. — Andrew Jackson

Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you. — Nick Carter

My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a child, and whenever he left, he would write to me. He wrote letters to me all through college, and we still correspond. His letters, and my mother's, are one of my life's treasures. — Louise Erdrich

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past. — Mario Lemieux

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting. — Edith Wharton

Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them. — Denis Waitley

When you shoot nude, you always find a way to, like, cover yourself up in a way. So you really don't feel like you're truly naked because you're still covering yourself. — Ronda Rousey

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors. — Gary Hamel