Best 66 quotes in «polish quotes» category

I believe that each person has a favorite place, a tree, a mountain, or a beach which they want to come back to, even if the return can only take place in the boundaries of their imagination.

Głos Bogów jest słabo słyszalny, a oni sami bywają omylni; to tylko ludzie, w ich imieniu, uzurpują sobie prawo do nieomylności.

Gdy przemierzasz świat, wciąż zmieniając miejsca pobytu, ludzie wydają się lepsi. Powietrze jest lżejsze i czystsze, a trawa bardziej zielona, śpiew ptaków bardziej melodyjny, a zachody słońca za każdym razem inne.

I’d like to see more stand-up routines venture into depicting tragedy. It’s conventional to give people a humorous cathartic release; now I’d love to hear stand-up tragedy that would reduce the audience to exhausted tears.

I want to be able to share the place I come from, just like I would share a piece of fresh Polish bread.

Instynkt życia najtrudniej zabić. Widziałem ludzi, którzy im głębiej staczali się w upodlenie, tym gwałtowniej pragnęli przetrwać wszystko i ocalić siebie.

- Macie akta - odparł. - To było samobójstwo. - O tak. Skoro w to wierzysz, to dlaczego przyznałeś się do winy i poprosiłeś o osobną celę? - Bałem się. Samobójstwa bywają zaraźliwe.

Ludzie nie zaklepują sobie innych ludzi. Podejmują świadomą decyzję, że będą z nimi. To wymaga wiary. Rysujesz koło na piasku i zgadzasz się w nim stać, i wierzyć w nie.

Never talk to waiters like that," Kit said. "Can I help it," he said, "if I only went one year to finishing school?" "It isn't manners," she said like a sensible schoolteacher quietly disciplining a small boy, "it just isn't smart." I thought of the time I first told him not to say ain't. He took this the same way, a little peeved but making mental notes. I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion. I was beginning to see what Kit had for Sammy. Of course she stood for something never within his reach before. But it was more than that. Sammy seemed to know that his career was entering a new cycle where polish paid off. You could almost see him filing off the rough edges against the sharp blade of her mind.

Niepowodzenia tworzą ludzi albo ich łamią.

Niczego nie rozumiesz, a niewiele czujesz. Nie będę próbował ci tego tłumaczyć, bo zrozumienie jest ponad twoje możliwości. Trzymasz się kurczowo tego, co zapisano w księgach, lecz przecież w księgach nie zapisano wszystkiego. Każdy pomijał to, co mu było niewygodne, lub palił księgę, uznaną przez siebie za heretycką, choć dla innych była księgą świętą. Ludzie są omylni i słabi.

Niepewność jest taka smutna i wystawia na ciosy, a wątpliwości rozdzierają ciało równie mocno jak katowskie obcęgi.

On the way out through the steel door, as I held Makenzie in my arms, I wondered if she could use her "Dorothy shoes" to take us safely home, if I just held on to her tightly. Then I asked myself: Where is home, really? I hoped that now I would know.

Polish the mirror of your heart until it reflects every person's light.

Polish the young woman’s ego like wax on a wood floor, Shinola on shoes, spit on an apple.

Polish people wear their wedding ring on the right hand, you could say it is different but on the other hand, it is not that different.

POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.

Popatrz jeno. Kościół, karczma, bordel, a w środku między nimi kupa gówna. Oto parabola ludzkiego żywota.

Powiedz mi, Tool, o czym myślisz najczęściej? Imass wzruszył ramionami. – O bezcelowości, przyboczna. – Czy wszyscy Imassowie o niej myślą? – Nie. Większość w ogóle nie myśli. – A to dlaczego? Przechylił głowę. – Dlatego, że to bezcelowe, przyboczna.

Przyjaciele moi i przyjaciółki! Nie odkładajcie na później ani piosenek, ani egzaminów, ani dentysty, a przede wszystkim nie odkładajcie na później miłości. Nie mówcie jej "przyjdź jutro, przyjdź pojutrze, dziś nie mam dla ciebie czasu". Bo może się zdarzyć, że otworzysz drzwi, a tam stoi zziębnięta staruszka i mówi "Przepraszam, musiałam pomylić adres..." I pstryk, iskierka gaśnie

Przytacza (profesor psychologii Krystyna Skarżyńska) badania Janusza Grzelaka i Bogdana Wojciszke, że Polacy traktują narodowe cierpienia jako rodzaj specjalnego wkładu czy inwestycji, za które należy im się od świata więcej niż innym. "Uważamy się za wyjątkowych, przypisujemy sobie moralne zasługi i szczególny wkład w losy świata. Badania wykazują, że ludzie tak myślący szczególnie łatwo akceptują zabijanie niewinnych".

Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.

Stalker. Dokładnie tak ich sobie wyobrażał – z opowiadań ojczyma i historyjek straganiarzy. Poplamiony i miejscami osmalony skafander ochronny, długa ciężka kamizelka kuloodporna, potężne bary, na prawym ramieniu niedbale zarzucona potężna bryła erkaemu, z lewej, na podobieństwo bandoletu, zwisa pobłyskująca smarem taśma z nabojami. Masywne sznurowane buty, wpuszczone do środka spodnie, na plecach przepastny płócienny plecak. Stalker zdjął okrągły hełm specnazu, ściągnął gumową maskę przeciwgazową i, zaczerwieniony, mokry, rozmawiał o czymś z dowódcą posterunku.

The cloud is my sister, the wind a brother to me.

Można odejść na zawsze, by stale być blisko.

The voice was full of satisfaction with the things we had achieved, sadness for the life we had left behind, and hope for the unknown future. I could feel my heart beating strong and fast under my right hand. I wondered if anyone else could hear the beating of my heart. It felt like the integrated pulse of many hearts beating steadily together in this room at that very moment.

The writing style which is most natural for you is bound to echo the speech you heard when a child. English was the novelist Joseph Conrad's third language, and much of that seems piquant in his use of English was no doubt colored by his first language, which was Polish. And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. I myself grew up in Indianapolis, where common speech sounds like a band saw cutting galvanized tin, and employs a vocabulary as unornamental as a monkey wrench. In some of the more remote hollows of Appalachia, children still grow up hearing songs and locutions of Elizabethan times. Yes, and many Americans grow up hearing a language other than English, or an English dialect a majority of Americans cannot understand. All these varieties of speech are beautiful, just as the varieties of butterflies are beautiful. No matter what your first language, you should treasure it all your life. If it happens not to be standard English, and if it shows itself when you write standard English, the result is usually delightful, like a very pretty girl with one eye that is green and one that is blue. I myself find that I trust my own writing most, and others seem to trust it most, too, when I sound most like a person from Indianapolis, which is what I am. What alternatives do I have? The one most vehemently recommended by teachers has no doubt been pressed on you, as well: to write like cultivated Englishmen of a century or more ago.

I flow like a butter in the nailed pan I stole. I also kept the nail, to polish and use as a means of teleportation.

Uczeni wyliczyli, że jest tylko jedna szansa na milion, by zaistniało coś tak całkowicie absurdalnego. Jednak magowie obliczyli, że szanse jedna na milion sprawdzają się w dziewięciu przypadkach na dziesięć.

Wdzięczność ma najkrótszą pamięć ze wszystkich ludzkich uczuć.

There is one thing I like about the Poles—their language. Polish, when it is spoken by intelligent people, puts me in ecstasy. The sound of the language evokes strange images in which there is always a greensward of fine spiked grass in which hornets and snakes play a great part. I remember days long back when Stanley would invite me to visit his relatives; he used to make me carry a roll of music because he wanted to show me off to these rich relatives. I remember this atmosphere well because in the presence of these smooth−tongued, overly polite, pretentious and thoroughly false Poles I always felt miserably uncomfortable. But when they spoke to one another, sometimes in French, sometimes in Polish, I sat back and watched them fascinatedly. They made strange Polish grimaces, altogether unlike our relatives who were stupid barbarians at bottom. The Poles were like standing snakes fitted up with collars of hornets. I never knew what they were talking about but it always seemed to me as if they were politely assassinating some one. They were all fitted up with sabres and broad−swords which they held in their teeth or brandished fiercely in a thundering charge. They never swerved from the path but rode rough−shod over women and children, spiking them with long pikes beribboned with blood−red pennants. All this, of course, in the drawing−room over a glass of strong tea, the men in butter−colored gloves, the women dangling their silly lorgnettes. The women were always ravishingly beautiful, the blonde houri type garnered centuries ago during the Crusades. They hissed their long polychromatic words through tiny, sensual mouths whose lips were soft as geraniums. These furious sorties with adders and rose petals made an intoxicating sort of music, a steel−stringed zithery slipper−gibber which could also register anomalous sounds like sobs and falling jets of water.

We know ourselves only insofar as we have been tested.

You celebrate what works and you take tender care of what doesn’t, with lotion, polish, and kindness.

Tymczasem wszyscy doskonale wiemy, że magia świąt z telewizora ma tyle wspólnego z prawdziwym życiem, co student z pieniędzmi.

Widzimy wszystko jakby w zwierciadle, niejasno. Czasami możemy zajrzeć przez lustro i zobaczyć odrobinę tego, co jest po drugiej stronie. Gdybyśmy całkiem wyczyścili zwierciadło, zobaczylibyśmy o wiele więcej. Ale wtedy nie moglibyśmy już widzieć siebie...

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

I always have red nail polish on my nails, so if they ever discontinue the red polish I wear from OPI, I'd be really upset.

At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.

Graphic design is the spit and polish but not the shoe.

If it's not working, you can't polish a turd.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

I'm half-Italian and half-Polish. So I'm always putting a hit out on myself.

I'm a big believer in just using CGI to polish what you get on camera.

I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breaker for him.

My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.

I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.

It's too early for a Polish pope.

Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.