Biserka Strmski Quotes & Sayings

Those years of anger weren't just directed inward and towards others, I was also angry with God. As a kid, when I sang songs in the children's choir and memorized verses in bible study, I was told there was a God who loved and protected us. He was a jealous God and could be angered, yes, but He always showed grace and mercy towards His people. I must not have been one of His people. He never protected me. As a matter of fact, I remember crying and pleading to God to make it stop when I was in DC being raped at five years old. I thought he heard my prayers when I moved to New Jersey. But when the abuse became worse and more frequent, it was easy for me to conclude God's protection didn't apply to me. — Elona Washington

Silicon Valley in the late 1990s was the closest that business has ever come to resembling a child's chemistry experiment. — Michael Lewis

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability. — Russell Mark

Emotion is not a defect in an otherwise perfect reasoning machine. Reason, unfettered from human feeling, has led to as many horrors as any crusader's zeal. What use is pity in a world devoted to maximizing efficiency and productivity? Scientific husbandry tells us to weed out the sick, the infirm, the weak. The ruthless efficiency of euthanasia initiatives and ethnic cleansing are but the programmatic application of Nietzsche's point: from any quantifiable cost-benefit analysis, the principles of animal husbandry should apply to the human race. Charles Darwin himself acknowledged that strict obedience to "hard reason" rather than sympathy for fellow humans would represent a sacrifice of "the noblest part of our nature."6 It is the human heart resonating with empathy, not the logical brain attuned to the mathematics of efficiency, that revolts at cruelty and inhumanity. In — Terryl L. Givens

It's not always what you say that matters, sometimes it's what you don't say. — Mr. Krabs

Cruise the diamond district with my biscuit. — Lil' Kim

The trees and the nature are friendlier in today's earth than commercial sick mass population. — Vishal Chipkar

Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice. — Wayne Dyer

There, there," she said. "Don't take it so hard, Dee. Wars don't last forever. I know. I can remember... — Elswyth Thane

There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened. — Madeleine Stowe

I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons. — Alex Ferguson

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to. — Lesley Gore

Everything was dirty and beautiful and wonderful. If she wasn't so terrified, New York City would have felt just right to her. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips