Cijena Zlata Quotes & Sayings

You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out. — Joni Mitchell

And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women.
Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable.
For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch — George Eliot

It feels a long way up and down from zero. — May Sarton

For two months after Christmas vacation we limped around campus with muscles too tigh and sore to walk properly, yet we had no good idea of our goal. Without knowing what a real race was like, I couldn't judge whether it was worth all the preparation, but having put in so much time already, how could we back out? Quite a few Freshman did manage to back out. After Christmas several, when freed from faily practice, decided that they liked not feeling tired all the time. Most of them vanished without a word. — Stefan Kieszling

It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well. — Sydney Thompson Dobell