Cetinski Ovo Quotes & Sayings

However strange his destiny may be, it is also sublime! I myself have understood that much. Did I not also live this unnatural life for ten months? Thus, to that question asked six thousand years ago by Ecclesiastes, 'That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?' only two men now have the right to answer: Captain Nemo and myself. — Jules Verne

Never since the beginning of the world has there been so little light. Our winter afternoons have been known at times to last a hundred years. — Charles Simic

The Pakistan fundraiser was thoroughly inspiring - the event was able to amass 2.3 million smiles for the school — Dave Eggers

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. — George Orwell

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom. — Jim DeMint

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. — Evelyn Waugh

No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing. — Seneca The Younger

We know that in 2001 it was believed 78 stem cell lines existed. But now we know there are only 22 that are viable, and they have been contaminated with mouse stem cells. — Russ Carnahan

DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc and the Thunder was a Noise from a Drum or a Pan.
VANNBRUGGHE. (Aside) What a Child is this! (To Dyer) These are only our Devices, and are like the Paint of our Painted Age.
DYER. But in Meditation the Sunne is a vast and glorious Body, and Thunder is the most forcible and terrible Phaenomenon: it is not to be mocked, for the highest Passion is Terrour. — Peter Ackroyd

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. — Sharon Salzberg

Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million? If so, something has happened to the gene pool. — Bob McKenzie

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow. — Horace