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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.


Wislawa Szymborska

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GERALD R. FORD I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
WOLE SOYINKA I really love peace and quiet.
BARRY SANDERS All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA A phoneless cord is a great device for people who love peace and quiet.
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I just want to live in peace and quiet.
AGNETHA FALTSKOG But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.
BRYAN FERRY I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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GEORGE MACDONALD We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destructi...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN Si lance was not quiet and calm, and it was not peace.
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CHARLES R. SWINDOLL I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been...
PHILIPPA GREGORY IF YOU WISH TO BRING PEACE UPON YOUR OWN, YOU MUST FIGHT THOSE WHO WISH FOR THE SAME PEACE.
ISAYAMA HAJIME I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.
DEBORAH KERR I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency
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CORNELIUS TACITUS I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given ...
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
SAMANTHA SMITH A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and...
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YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
BILL COSBY Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.
PATRICIA BRIGGS I just wish that somebody would just sanely sit down and talk, because who wants to fight? Animosity...
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MICHELLE HODKIN Any time I can spend time with my brothers and sisters who fight for this country and fight for free...
JAMES MCCLOUGHAN I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
RAFAEL NADAL He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINE He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO It will never end.
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MARK MCKINNON One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
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CHARLES DICKENS Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.
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CHUCK GRASSLEY There is never any peace for those who resist God.
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ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH -A Word On Statistics-


Out of every hundred people,

those who always kn...
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MICHAEL CRAWFORD Sometimes we want something so much that God will have us give it up so we can grow
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More Wislawa Szymborska

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are p...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the sa...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA There's simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to s...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and ...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of ea...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a w...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the im...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip o...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world t...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single sto...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temp...
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA After every war someone has to tidy up.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

Wh...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Bez tej miłości można żyć,
mieć serce suche jak orzeszek,
malutki los naparstkiem pi...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Czytanie książek to najpiękniejsza zabawa, jaką sobie ludzkość wymyśliła.
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Dividing earth and sky
is not the right way
to think about this wholeness.
It only al...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankin...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.
Scruples are alien to the black panther.
Pi...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA The Three Oddest Words

When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already ...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Possibilities

I prefer movies.
I prefer cats.
I prefer the oaks along the Warta...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Dojela sem tudi, da je ljubezen do človeštva zelo nevarno čustvo, ker najpogosteje vodi v nasilno...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA ... in daily speech, where we don't stop to consider every word, we all use phrases like "the ordina...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Czemu ty się, zła godzino,
z niepotrzebnym mieszasz lękiem?
Jesteś - a więc musisz mi...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA They're both convinced
that a sudden passion joined them.
Such certainty is beautiful,
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA -A Word On Statistics-


Out of every hundred people,

those who always kn...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA Kucam na vrata kamena.
-To sam ja, pusti me.
Hoću da uđem u tvoju unutrašnjost,
da...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA