Quotes About Experience

Popatrz jeno. KoÅ›cióÅ', karczma, bordel, a w Å›rodku miÄ™dzy nimi kupa gówna. Oto parabola ludzkiego ?ywota.

manticore, wyvern, fogler, aeschna, ilyocoris, chimera, leshy, vampire, ghoul, graveir, werewolf, giant scorpion, striga, black annis, kikimora, vypper…so many I've killed.

You remind me, Geralt, of an old fisherman who, toward the end of his life, discovers that fish stink and the breeze from the sea makes your bones ache. Be consistent. Talking and regretting won't get you anywhere.

a memory from one's youth is a lovely thing. It's not easy to get rid of such a memento. Even if now it's passé and pompously banal.

After all,' added Sheala, pouting her lips, 'it's befallen all of us at some time. Each of us, sitting here, has been cheated, taken advantage of, and made a laughing stock of by some man, at some time.

Veinte años al servicio de la poesía, suficiente tiempo como para saber que hay cosas que o se entienden al vuelo, incluso sin palabras, o nunca se las entenderá.

If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy." "So…

Because how am I to know, dammit? When I cut my finger, I bleed. I bleed every month, too. I get belly-ache when I overeat, and a hangover when I get drunk. When I'm happy I sing and I swear when I'm sad. When I hate someone I kill them and when—But enough of this! Your answer, witcher.

Love,' Fringilla said slowly, 'is like renal colic. Until you have an attack, you can't even imagine what it's like. And when people tell you about it you don't believe them.

Gdyby umiejÄ™tno?? korzystania z doÅ›wiadczeÅ" i wyciÄ…gania wniosków decydowaÅ'y, dawno ju? zaponielibyÅ›my, czym jest wojna. Ale tych, którzy do wojny d???, nigdy nie powstrzymywaÅ'y i nie powstrzymajÄ… doÅ›wiadczenia ani analogie.

La vita non ha niente a che vedere con la poesia! E sai perché? Perché è al di sopra di qualsiasi critica!

Your mother gives birth to you only once and only once do you die," the witcher said calmly.

Il tempo dimostrerà chi aveva ragione. E qui sta la superiorità di chi è longevo: io ho la possibilità di verificarlo.

Si notre capacité à tirer profit de notre expérience et à en retenir les leçons était décisive, nous aurions oublié depuis longtemps ce qu'est la guerre. Mais aucune expérience, aucune analogie n'est parvenue à empêcher ceux qui veulent la guerre de la faire, et il en sera toujours ainsi.

Your mother gives birth to you only once and only once do you die

Se a decidere fosse la capacità di fare tesoro delle esperienze passate e di trarre le giuste conclusioni, ci saremmo scordati da un pezzo che cos'è la guerra. Ma esperienze e analogie non hanno mai fermato né fermeranno i guerrafondai.

Un chirurgo può permettersi di essere cinico solo dopo dieci anni di pratica.

Vale la pena pagare il piacere col dolore.

A real man, the sorceress knew from experience, is an enthusiastic angler, but only using a fly. He collects military figures, erotic prints and models of sailing ships he builds himself, including the kind in bottles, and there is never a shortage of empty bottles of expensive alcoholic drinks in his home. He is an excellent cook, able to conjure up veritable culinary masterpieces. And well—when all's said and done—the very sight of him is enough to make one desirous.

Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.

I lack the imagination. For that reason I have to pack, stuff into my pockets odds and ends, passport, money, and go see what it's really like. Whenever the time of year or the weather changes, I have to pack up whatever I can't do without and visit all those places I've been before, to make sure they still exist

It drew us, because life is made of bits of the present that stay in the mind. The world itself, really, is made of that.

Ludzie nie pragn? ?eczy wymy?lonych, poci?ga ich tylko to, co zobaczyli wcze?niej.

With events that have passed there is no problem, provided we don't attempt to be wiser that they are, provided we can't use them to further own own ends. If we let them be, the turn into a marvelous solution, a magical acid that dissolves time and space, eats calendars and atlases, and turns the coordinates of action into sweet nothingness. What is the meaning of the riddle? What is the use to anyone of chronology, sister of death?