Pawiak Quotes

#1. And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you ...

Tadeusz Borowski

#2. In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales.

Carol Loomis

#3. Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

Bruce Oldfield

#4. Stan's father had told him that, before the money ran out, they had intended to put the statue of the soldier back up here again.

'I like the birdbath better, Daddy,' Stan said.

Mr Uris ruffled his hair. 'Me too, son,' he said. 'More baths and less bullets, that's my motto.

Stephen King

#5. If you stop feeding strife, it will eventually lead to a peaceful life.

Jeanette Coron

#6. Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

Stevie Smith

#7. Calm and repose are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable.

Lao-Tzu

#8. Nature, in her wisdom, seems to have arranged it so that men's stupidity should be ephemeral, and books make them immortal. A fool ought to be content having exacerbated everyone around him, but he insists tormenting future generations.

Montesquieu

#9. The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#10. Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.

Ellen DeGeneres

#11. I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

Gareth Gates

#12. Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.

Henry David Thoreau