Reymont Wladyslaw Quotes & Sayings

I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

A person in my position has to restrain himself. — Vin Diesel

Being twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

I feel strongly that it is the selfish person who needs to change, not the selfless person. (Zhang) — Derald Wing Sue

During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate. — Wladyslaw Reymont

By the age of nine, I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew nothing about them. — Wladyslaw Reymont

But the fact that judges follow precedent regularly even though not invariably does not support the legalistic theory as strongly as one might expect. The original precedent in a line of precedents could not have been based on precedent. — Richard A. Posner

When I was six and already able to read and write Polish, my uncle the curate taught me Latin. Since he had no suitable textbook, he simply used the breviary. — Wladyslaw Reymont

Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film. — Jeff Bridges

The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself. — Louise Bourgeois

Today I release the need to blame anyone, including myself. — Louise Hay

(Fishing) is as boring as boring gets. And then when it's finally not boring and you have a fish on the line it turns into a crime scene with a wooden club and a crazy amount of hitting. — Holly Goldberg Sloan

It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible
because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor. — John Prescott

A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude. — Wladyslaw Reymont

Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks does not fear the light, and to attack the enemy by guile would not suit it. A Pole has always despised ambushes, and God forbid that he should change. We shall not fail to have enough strength to defeat our enemies if we do not fail to have the spirit of sacrifice and love. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

Everything must go its own way. One has to plow in order to sow, one has to sow in order to harvest, and what is disturbing has to be weeded out, like a bad weed. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. — Ludwig Von Mises

We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such. — Gary Wright

I know many of you would say "What about the Bible?" The Bible says this, the Bible says that, the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I think the Bible is the inspired word of man - about God, and some of that is now expired. — Carlton Pearson