Norman Davies quote: "The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of all sorts."

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NORMAN DAVIES

The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationa...
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In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stif...
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There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.
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I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be immine...
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I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Man...
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Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it ...
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The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.
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Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks...
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The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is le...
NORMAN DAVIES

Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In...
NORMAN DAVIES

In the 21st century, there will probably be a reflex against the disintegration of traditional Europ...
NORMAN DAVIES

A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.
NORMAN DAVIES

Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles l...
NORMAN DAVIES

So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably sa...
NORMAN DAVIES

The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries wher...
NORMAN DAVIES

Europe's fragmentation puts the wider historical picture beyond reach.
NORMAN DAVIES

It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman.
NORMAN DAVIES

People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of Fra...
NORMAN DAVIES

At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it con...
NORMAN DAVIES

One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It is...
NORMAN DAVIES

Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. Th...
NORMAN DAVIES

In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates so...
NORMAN DAVIES

For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite...
NORMAN DAVIES

States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else,...
NORMAN DAVIES

It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed...
NORMAN DAVIES

One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that th...
NORMAN DAVIES

One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if th...
NORMAN DAVIES

Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe.
NORMAN DAVIES

I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admir...
NORMAN DAVIES

In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Allianc...
NORMAN DAVIES

Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
NORMAN DAVIES

The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cul...
NORMAN DAVIES

WHEN YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE, YOU NEVER HAVE TO HIDE.
NORMAN

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your poten...
LYNN DAVIES

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of the...
NICK DAVIES

Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fiel...
PAUL DAVIES

As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hindui...
DAVE DAVIES

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood abou...
DAVE DAVIES

He had a fool proof plan for not getting a job - In the event of an interview wear flip-flops.
ALAN DAVIES

A smoke-free environment will be beneficial for club members, visitors and staff.
ALAN DAVIES

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
ALAN DAVIES

I could not get far enough down the food chain to talk to him... I had to grunt like an ape to keep ...
ALAN DAVIES

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be get...
ALAN DAVIES

I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled.
ALAN DAVIES

Bristol International will continue to carry out a strategic review of car parking options, so that ...
ALAN DAVIES

The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most po...
GAVYN DAVIES

Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simp...
GAVYN DAVIES

The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national mome...
GAVYN DAVIES

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the inte...
GAVYN DAVIES

Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, defl...
GAVYN DAVIES

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
GAVYN DAVIES

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and...
GAVYN DAVIES

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
GAVYN DAVIES

Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the o...
GAVYN DAVIES

As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among ...
GAVYN DAVIES

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top...
GAVYN DAVIES

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of ...
GAVYN DAVIES

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have ma...
GAVYN DAVIES

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what for...
GAVYN DAVIES

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the f...
RAY DAVIES

A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its...
PAUL DAVIES

Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and bef...
ANDREW DAVIES

Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to...
PAUL DAVIES

What is this life so full of care,
We don't have time to stand and stare.
W.H. DAVIES

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand ...
W.H. DAVIES

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fi...
PAUL DAVIES

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woma...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous co...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an ideali...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stol...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themse...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and ...
PETER DAVIES

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and duri...
MARION DAVIES

I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, I wil...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine bu...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learni...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
SAMUEL DAVIES

We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extend...
OWEN DAVIES

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn thes...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not o...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppres...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for th...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishin...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret langua...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it nece...
OWEN DAVIES

"I worked for men," my Lord will say, When we meet at the end of the King's highway; "I walked...
ROBERT DAVIES

Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotiona...
ANDREW DAVIES

I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was ...
ANDREW DAVIES

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - p...
PAUL DAVIES

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on...
LYNN DAVIES

I still do cardiovascular exercises, aerobic exercises, and then strength training, as it's impo...
LYNN DAVIES

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in ...
DAVE DAVIES

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.
RAY DAVIES

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Wales is delighted to be partnering with the state of Michigan, who we consider to be a leader in th...
ANDREW DAVIES

Bleak House is a great baggy thing, the plot doesn't work in all sorts of parts, so you've got to ti...
ANDREW DAVIES

They also said they woke better and seemed to have a bit more energy during the day.
ANDREW DAVIES

Our scheme guaranteeing free travel for elderly and disabled people on local bus services continues ...
ANDREW DAVIES

I've got some good news for you.
ANDREW DAVIES

For much of the 20th century people left Wales, but today the old adage 'You have to get out to get ...
ANDREW DAVIES

It is a fascinating period, but people are expecting miracles - and miracles just don't happen, ... ...
ANDREW DAVIES

I am delighted with this appointment. Gareth is a proven operator at a senior strategy and operation...
ANDREW DAVIES

When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.
LYNN DAVIES

Not only does this software detect activity, it starts making its own measurements before researcher...
ASHLEY DAVIES

We were short-dollar as our core view is that the Fed ended its tightening cycle on Jan. 31.
ASHLEY DAVIES

Given the market is looking for another rate hike at the end-March FOMC meeting, it seems likely tha...
ASHLEY DAVIES

On the upside, we think that 112.50 could be a key level to watch, beyond which foreign investors ma...
ASHLEY DAVIES

A catalyst for a higher Australian dollar versus New Zealand's dollar could be relative monetary pol...
ASHLEY DAVIES

With the Charles Schumer bill possibly being voted on by the end of this month, now may be a good ti...
ASHLEY DAVIES

The market is taking the very superficial view that the Fed is about to stop lifting rates and hence...
ASHLEY DAVIES

A catalyst for a higher Australian dollar versus New Zealand's dollar could be relative monetary pol...
ASHLEY DAVIES

Well, something's got to give. Otherwise Germany will be back to the polls in a few weeks' time.
ASHLEY DAVIES

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agend...
PAUL DAVIES

There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got...
LYNN DAVIES

Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start...
PAUL DAVIES

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returni...
PAUL DAVIES

Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
ANDREW DAVIES

No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like ...
PAUL DAVIES

A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary scie...
PAUL DAVIES

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of...
PAUL DAVIES

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.
RAY DAVIES

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the...
RAY DAVIES

What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be ...
RAY DAVIES

You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.
ANDREW DAVIES

It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanati...
BRONWYN DAVIES

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipl...
SIOBHAN DAVIES

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I...
ALAN DAVIES

I can't stand tribute bands. It's nice, bless 'em, but it's not right. They can'...
DAVE DAVIES

A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characte...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

I hear Glenn Hoddle has found God. That must have been one hell of a pass.
BOB DAVIES

We have a track record of not disappointing the market's expectations... We expect strong growth to ...
BOB DAVIES

We expect strong growth to continue through acquisitions and tendering opportunities.
BOB DAVIES

When people see our logo on the side of buses, it will reinforce that we are one of Europe's biggest...
BOB DAVIES

We've tried to make it as user and customer friendly as possible, ... I want something going on that...
BOB DAVIES

I think we are reasonably well positioned in the second half, we are moving along with confidence,
BOB DAVIES

It's a major concern, ... We've spent a year doing the legwork trying to get a title sponsor. This y...
BOB DAVIES

There's a lot of money out here (in San Diego), ... We've talked to casinos, beer guys ... it's one ...
BOB DAVIES

We have been told that Stephen is not for sale and we'll now have to look to make progress on other ...
BILLY DAVIES

He's just stupid, to be honest. He's got to learn. He's a young lad who's full of fun. That's the an...
BILLY DAVIES

It was a nice performance but a disappointing result. To come here and control the game the way we d...
BILLY DAVIES

For the majority of the second-half we controlled the game and we didn't get what we deserved,
BILLY DAVIES

As yet they are still doing tests and they are still trying to find out what it is.
BILLY DAVIES

I asked the referee to look at the video of the game and assess his own performance, because his dec...
BILLY DAVIES

We made the enquiry and now we've made the move. Maybe, with the appearances he's made for Celtic, t...
BILLY DAVIES

The second half was better. We looked more compact and controlled it.
BILLY DAVIES

Jones is a player we admire and like and we have been making lots of phone calls concerning him.
BILLY DAVIES

It's a great boost for Patrick to maybe get a chance to play in a World Cup.
BILLY DAVIES

Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted...
NICK DAVIES

Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and t...
HOWARD DAVIES

Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is ...
PAUL DAVIES

I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without want...
RON DAVIES

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that...
PAUL DAVIES

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere c...
PAUL DAVIES

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good...
DAVE DAVIES

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a y...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
SAMUEL DAVIES

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
ROBERTSON DAVIES

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the ideal...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest sur...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Wisdom is a variable possession. Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog, fewer when pursued by ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

It is better to have loved and lost, than to have paid for it and not liked it at all.
GRAHAM DAVIES

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all su...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinar...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a...
DAVE DAVIES

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
RAY DAVIES

In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybod...
NICK DAVIES

The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together ...
NICK DAVIES

You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
LYNN DAVIES

There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the...
LYNN DAVIES

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are readin...
ROBERTSON DAVIES

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the concep...
PAUL DAVIES

When seniors first come here, they're apprehensive. But once they're here, they see that it's a warm...
BARBARA DAVIES

The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. T...
ALAN DAVIES

This is an important historical site which is now a leisure facility and I feel certain that there i...
BARRY DAVIES

The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of all sorts.

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