Bosniaks History Quotes & Sayings

To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in being a link in the longest possible chain of ancestors. The glory of the aristocrat of the spirit is in having no ancestors - or having as few as possible. If an artist is his own ancestor, if he has only descendents, he enters history as a genius; if he has few ancestors, or is related to them distantly, he enters history as a talent. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative. — Brit Hume

His Noise saying, No, no, not now, not NOW-
And then he says, Viola?
"I'm here, Todd," I say, my voice breaking, shouting with desperation. "I'm here!"
And he says Voila? again-
Asking it-
Asking like he's not sure I'm there-
And then his Noise falls completely silent-
And he stops struggling-
And looking right into my eyes-
He dies.
My Todd dies. — Patrick Ness

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it. — Montesquieu

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. — Karl Marx

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

The size of your body is just right. The only question is whether you're big enough inside. — Patrick Carman

There once was a man from Des Moines
Whose wife was always annoyed
He stepped in the kitchen
She started her bitchin'
Now that fucking cunt is dead. — Frances Winkler

By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce them. — Margaret Atwood

He was inside that realm of mind, the private universe, the infinite sphere of himself where he went to work magic. — Laini Taylor

Have you ever noticed that folks will say 'Look, he has his mama's eyes' or 'his daddy's nose,' but they never say 'We're so proud! Look! He's hung just like grampa'?"
- Zach McKnight — Suzie Quint

Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.' — David Chase

Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live. — Joseph B. Wirthlin