Pilsudski Quotes

#1. Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.

Tariq Ali

#2. the Entente Powers, far from aiding Poland, regarded her activities with irritation. Poland won her independence for twenty years by her own efforts under the leadership of Pilsudski.

Norman Davies

#3. My idea of serenity - that wonderful word that everybody's trying to get into their life - is call-waiting.

Elaine Stritch

#4. Wonders are many ... but none is more wonderful than man

Sophocles

#5. Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.

Margaret Visser

#6. To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.

Jozef Pilsudski

#7. Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.

Pete Du Pont

#8. I'm just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again.

Rod Stewart

#9. People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

Jerry Rice

#10. My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.

Venus Williams

#11. To be defeated and yet not surrender, this is victory.

Jozef Pilsudski

#12. In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

Harold Bloom

#13. Who doesn't respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

Jozef Pilsudski

#14. The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

Marianne Williamson