Gawkowski Krzysztof Quotes & Sayings

Dust in a cloud, blinding weather,
Drums that rattle and roar!
A mother and daughter stood together
Beside their cottage door.

'Mother, the heavens are bright like brass,
The dust is shaken high,
With labouring breath the soldiers pass,
Their lips are cracked and dry.'

'Mother, I'll throw them apples down,
I'll bring them pails of water.'
The mother turned with an angry frown
Holding back her daughter.

'But mother, see, they faint with thirst,
They march away to die,'
'Ah, sweet, had I but known at first
Their throats are always dry.'

'There is no water can supply them
In western streams that flow,
There is no fruit can satisfy them
On orchard trees that grow.'

'Once in my youth I gave, poor fool,
A soldier apples and water,
So may I die before you cool
Your father's drouth, my daughter. — Robert Graves

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed. — Os Guinness

Maybe he wasn't the balloon who'd been cut loose, but the one who'd untied himself from the rail. — Joey W. Hill

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live — Maximilien Robespierre

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers! — Michael Flatley

Be careful what you wish for; your wish might come true. — Anne Rice

The next day I was driven down to New York City to take the physical. It was one of the strangest things I'd ever seen. Several hundred young men, maybe even a thousand, in their skivvies, walking around an enormous room, all of us lost, dazed, and confused.
Some of these guys had dodged the draft and were there under the watchful eyes of dozens of federal marshals lined up against one of the walls. After eight hours of being poked, prodded, stuck, and poked again, I was given a large red envelope. I had been rejected. I had the respiratory problems of an old man, high blood pressure, partial loss of hearing, very bad teeth, very flat, very wide feet and I tested positive for tuberculosis.
"Frankly," the doctor said, "I don't know how the hell you're even standing up," and that was when the sergeant told me that if they bottled everything that was wrong with me "we could take over the world without a shot. — John William Tuohy

Every shopaholic needs an accomplice. — Ozzy Osbourne

You bore ne rigid. — Daniel Campbell

Great faith surfaces in great problems - have faith — Ikechukwu Joseph

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories. — Guy Sajer

He tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing. — Charles Coughlin

Science, to quote your own words, is nothing else than a 'strange hankering after differences'. Her essence could not be better defined. For men of science nothing is so important as the clear definition of differences. — Hermann Hesse

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Bell Hooks — Win Quier