Mariusz Kolakowski Quotes & Sayings

He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts. — Hermann Hesse

Because we see only what we already know. We project our own capacities - for good as well as evil - onto the other person. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

Uh," I said, feeling somewhat off balance. "What do I think of gay guys?" "Yes." "Boink and let boink, more or less. — Jim Butcher

If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective can be also so quantified, then some computational method may be evolved for choosing the best schedule of actions among alternatives. Such use of mathematical models is termed mathematical programming. — George Dantzig

That which is evil is soon learned. — John Ray

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking. — Guy Ritchie

When you get to be my age," Maude said "most things were a long time ago. But in here?" She tapped her chest... "Some things happened yesterday."
"I nodded. I could feel how that was going to happen. It was already happening. — Laura Alden

She saw in his eyes that he knew she was thinking about him. She liked the fact that he knew it, and she hoped he had been thinking about her as well. — Nicholas Sparks

I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art ... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring. — Carine Roitfeld

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter. — Drew Curtis

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth. — Mark Krikorian

When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light. — Srikumar Rao