#par

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#characteristics #common #developed #economic #even

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#beliefs #concern #currently #deep #each

One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#books #bookshelves #claim #every #exist

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#apart #estates #few #history #landscapes

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#big #defeat #hands #help #information

reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#life

Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#circles #frankly #holds #important #lot

I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#imagine #participation #right #right wing #trying

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#arms race #cherished #desire #every #every nation

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#call #get #i #juicy #leading