Ricky > Ricky's Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness

“It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz

“The Poles, though intellectual, sympathetic, brave, and gifted with high personal qualities that have made them many friends, have been always deficient in collective wisdom; and there is probably no more astonishing antithesis in Europe than the Poles as individuals and the Poles as a people.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia

“Sometimes I have thought that human misery goes far beyond human imagination,—imagination has its limits, and misery, like the vast seas, appears to be without end.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“Our souls are full of Gothic arches, pinnacles, twisted traceries we cannot shake off, and of which Greek minds knew nothing.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

“Youth is the one worthwhile treasure in this world, no matter how miserable the rest of life might be.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

“that the greater philosopher a man is, the more difficult it is for him to answer the foolish questions of common people;”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero – Henryk Sienkiewicz's Historical Epic

“A beautiful woman is worth her weight always in gold; but if she loves in addition, she has simply no price.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero – Henryk Sienkiewicz's Historical Epic

“Hamlet is the human soul as it was, as it is, and as it will be. In conceiving this drama, Shakspeare overstepped the limit fixed even for genius. I can understand Homer and Dante, studied by the light of their epoch. I can comprehend that they could do what they did; but how an Englishman of the seventeenth century could foreknow psychosis, a science of recent growth, will be to me, in spite of my study of Hamlet, an everlasting mystery. Having”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, Without Dogma

“I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. ”
― Lech Walesa

“When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.”
― Arsene Wenger

“I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that you know you would not have brought out of yourself. He makes you discover something interesting in your life. If you are living like an animal, what is the point of living? What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.”
― Arsene Wenger

“The coach's role is to make the player understand everything that serves the interest of the game. To do this he must speak to the child within each player, to the adolescent he was & to the adult he is”
― Arsene Wenger

“This is where the music starts to slow. Because, let’s face it, the fact remains that in two decades since his arrival Wenger has had a greater, more visible – albeit rather tenuous – influence on Germany’s world champions than he has on the current England team. Despite being the only long-serving Premier League-era manager with any real sway or heft in the wider world – coach of five of France’s world champions in 1998 – he will leave no real mark on English football development or theory. Rather than cherished, brain selectively picked, Wenger is instead quietly mocked these days, cast as a cobwebbed crank, some doomed, sad stone knight still tending the hearth, a little creaky and mad, friends only with the flies and the beetles and the spiders.”
― Barney Ronay

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.”
― Nicolaus Copernicus

“I often considered whether there could perhaps be found a more reasonable arrangement of circles.”
― Nicolaus Copernicus, Commentariolus (Perfect Library)

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“160.—However brilliant an action it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“Pour la plupart des hommes, l'amour de la justice n'est que la peur de subir l'injustice.

(For most men, the love of justice in only the fear of suffering injustice.)”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Prostota to ostatnie osiągnięcie. Po zagraniu ogromnej ilości nut i większej ilości nut, prostota staje się ukoronowaniem sztuki.

(Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.)”
― Frédéric Chopin

“Empiece por aprender a dibujar y pintar como los viejos maestros. Después de eso, puede hacer lo que quiera; todos te respetarán.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.”
― Salvador Dalí

“He who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he who is battle slain
Can never rise to fight again.”
― Oliver Goldsmith

“Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit -- appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free.”
― Joseph Warren

“Потом они забудут о том, что слышали раньше, и поверят новым обещаниям, и пойдут дальше.”
― Władysław Stanisław Reymont, Bunt

“Бунт против насилия приводит к беспощадной тирании.”
― Władysław Stanisław Reymont, Bunt

“И запомните, что все наши несчастья — от человеческой подлости. Это люди утопили нас в туманах, это они заслонили нам солнце, это они морят нас голодом и обжигают холодом. Они мстят нам. Они хотят нас сломить и заставить вернуться. Хотят нас поработить и муками голода и ночи загнать под кнут и ярмо. В любую минуту они могут появиться среди нас, дабы искушать слабых и сомневающихся. Смерть коварным тиранам! Они будут соблазнять вас пропитанием и добротой. Не верьте этим гнусным гадам — они будут пить из вас кровь, как пили раньше. За жалкую пищу вновь превратят вас в рабов.”
― Władysław Stanisław Reymont, Bunt