Konopnicka Zus Quotes & Sayings

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens. — Theodore Dreiser

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. — Alfred De Vigny

I've been in love. It's painful, pointless and overrated. — Ian Somerhalder

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. — Vincent Van Gogh

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies. — William F. Buckley Jr.

He felt like a bottle that is being slowly filled with warm, dirty warter. — Nathanael West

At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I'd like to know what a place is like when I'm not there. I'd like to be sure. — Ray Bradbury