Michał Hołda > Michał's Quotes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!”
― Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.”
― Leon Degrelle

“To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.”
― Sophocles, Ajax

“Quam bene vivas refert, non quam diu”
― Seneca

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
― Charlie Chaplin

“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Tactics win battles. Strategy wins wars," I say.
"Oooo. I am Reaper. God of wolves. King of strategy." Mustang pinches my cheek. "You are just too adorable.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Her eyes were dark and shining, and his arms were sure of her.
The first time he touched her hand, he'd known.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
― Voltaire

“Dulce bellum inexpertis

"War is very sweet to those who have never tried it.”
― Erasmus

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
― Carter Crocker

“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Nothing before you counts,” he said. “And I can’t even imagine an after.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I learn more when I make mistakes, so long as they don’t kill me.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Żeby ... winę zmazać, trzeba ją pierwej na siebie wziąć”
― Teodor Parnicki, Słowo i ciało: Powieść z lat 201-203

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee ― Wisdom for the Way

“I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we’re friendly. So there.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle