Jaruzelski Quotes

#1. As an addict who will read anything, I obeyed, but I am not saved, and return to tell you neither what to read nor how to read it, only what I have read and think worthy of rereading, which may be the only pragmatic test for the canonical.

Harold Bloom

#2. I served the Poland that existed.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#3. It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#4. I exist only in the past.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#5. Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#6. There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#7. People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.

Kanye West

#8. I'd wish you luck, but I don't think it would help.'
'Why not?'
'My lady, you make your own luck.

Maria V. Snyder

#9. I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#10. Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#11. America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

Wojciech Jaruzelski

#12. You can't live your life in a bubble, Charlie. And you can't live Evan's life for him. He won't thank you if you try to wrap him in bubble wrap and set him on a shelf.

Tamara Hoffa

#13. An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.

Vladimir Putin

#14. What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

Yoweri Museveni

#15. Some people are born with an ear for music, some people are born with a talent for drawing, some people...have a built-in radar that tells them where a comma needs to go in a sentence.

Krystal Sutherland

#16. My journey, however, has followed a far less predictable story: stalled chapters, unexpected plot twists, and dozens of rewrites that have left the ending more than a little uncertain.

Mandy Hale

#17. None of us knows anything. We think we know, then it turns out that we don't. The universe has a way of intervening. Of changing you. In the end, you don't know what you're seeking, and you don't know what you'll find.

Tammy Kling