A Quote by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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Attitudes Reasons Weak

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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Polish - Poet
March 6, 1909 - May 7, 1966

When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.

Toni Morrison

A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.

Michel Houellebecq

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Charles Caleb Colton

[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

Carolina Maria de Jesus

Things don't just happen, they have reasons. And the reasons have reasons. And the reasons for the reasons have reasons. And then the things that happen make other things happen, so they become reasons themselves. Nothing moves forward in a straight line, nothing is straightforward.

Kevin Brooks

Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

Akio Morita

Sometimes we want to engage in a war for financial reasons, for strategic reasons, for moral reasons, for all sorts of reasons, and it's important when we're making that decision to remind ourselves of what happens to the people on the front lines when we start this process.

Rory Kennedy

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

Audre Lorde

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

Charles Curtis

Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.

Mordecai Richler

We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.

Woody Hayes

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

Dante Alighieri

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

Warren Buffett

I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!