Ireneusz Baran Quotes & Sayings

Since long ago all peoples have recognized that the world, apart from its physical meaning, also has a moral one. Yet everywhere the matter has only come to a vague consciousness, which, as it sought expression, clothed itself in all sorts of images and myths. There are religions. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm a Russian and all I know of Russia is what I've read. I yearn for the broad fields of golden corn and the forests of silver beech that I've read of in books and though I try and try, I can't see them with my mind's eye. I know Moscow from what I've seen of it at the cinema. I sometimes rack my brain to picture to myself a Russian village, the straggling village of log houses with their thatched roofs that you read about in Chekov, and it's no good, I know that what I see isn't that at all. I'm a Russian and I speak my native language worse than I speak English and French. When I read Tolstoi and Dostoievsky it is easier for me to read them in a translation. I'm just as much a foreigner to my own people as I am to the English and French. You who've got a home and a country, people who love you, people whose ways are your ways, whom you understand without knowing them - how can you tell what it is to belong nowhere? — W. Somerset Maugham

The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear ... And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use those idle words as a sharp weapon against some neighbor's heart. — Francis De Sales

There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude. — Bryant McGill

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch. — Randy Falco

We make two assumptions that are vital to the arguments in this book: There are active managers that can beat the market (i.e., the market is not completely efficient). Superior active managers can be identified. — Meb Faber

When these Velcro thoughts and emotions arise, the key is to face and investigate whatever belief structures underlie them. In that moment, inquiry is your spiritual practice. To avoid this practice is to avoid your own awakening. Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you're willing to face it - to look deeply into its true nature. — Adyashanti

Wolfe was furious with me but he still cared. Cared enough to foolishly follow me into the heart of the Alvernian Mountains. — Samantha Young

I can never watch you die again," I cried as tears streaked down my cheeks and fell onto him "I cannot do it. Are you listening? — Courtney Cole

I am Mary Iris Malone, and I am empty, cleaned the fuck out. All that's left is a fierce hunger for flight. — David Arnold

D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers. — Alexandre Dumas

A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation. — Pearl Zhu

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in. — Gwenno