Polish Quotes

• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  Oliver Herford

  Deep Thought, Moss, Rolling

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• That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones.

  Steve Jobs

  Beautiful, Team, Fighting

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• My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Cinema, Helpful, Problem

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble

  Saint Augustine

  War, Men, Worry

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• First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.

  Winston Churchill

  Two, Rocks, Years

  Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940”, William Heinemann

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• By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they never had any intention of restoring one of the most elemental human rights the right to belong to a free trade union.

  Ronald Reagan

  Rights, Organization, Majority

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wise, Morning, Lying

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• I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Cutting, House, Village

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• Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Vacuums, Spirit, Talent

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• It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Triumph, Exhausted, Proof

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2013). “Henryk Sienkiewicz: Three Stories”, p.7, Wildside Press LLC

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• Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too. Now go ahead and ask me if I'm still Polish. You people keep asking me this question. You want Polish artists to make it in the world, but when they do, you accuse them of treason.

  Roman Polanski

  Artist, People, Hollywood

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• You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, Giving, Consciousness

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• My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.

  Dagmara Dominczyk

  Smell, Comforting, Skins

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• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  Ed Koch

  Politics, Firsts, Bedtime

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• I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

  Eva Green

  Needs, Crafts, Lifetime

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• The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Life, Sports, Preparation

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• While the cat's away, the mice will play.

  James Arthur Ray

  Cat, Play, Humanity

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• In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Europe, Actors

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• About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Children, Russia, Parent

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• I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

  Brittany Snow

  Real, Teenager, Mean

  "The Pacifier - Q&A With Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot and Morgan York". Phase9 Interview, www.phase9.tv.

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• I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.

  Sadie Frost

  Strong, Character, Ghetto

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

  Bill Murray

  Thinking, Way, Yeah

  Interview with Jessica Lee Jernigan, jessicaleejernigan.typepad.com. August 9, 2004.

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• In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Strong, Motivation, Significant Change

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• It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

  Edward Gibbon

  Memories, Writing, Practice

  Edward Gibbon, John Holroyd Earl of Sheffield (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.97

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• Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

  John Burroughs

  Travel, Men, Moss

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