Desanka Maksimovic Strepnja Quotes & Sayings

They told me I wouldn't make 25. Then it was 35, then 45. These were my doctors speaking - they're all dead now. — George Best

If you're failing you're not trying hard enough, if you're not failing you're not trying hard enough - J. Wedge — Jonathan Wedge

I love having somebody there - that companion thing. You know who you're going to eat with, who you're going to see a movie with. — Chris Rock

I want the material of things. Humanity is drenched with humanization, as if that were necessary; and that false humanization trips up man and trips up his humanity. A thing exists that is fuller, deafer, deeper, less good, less bad, less pretty. Yet that thing too runs the risk, in our coarse hands, of becoming transformed into "purity", our hands that are coarse and full of words. — Clarice Lispector

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear. — Iris Murdoch

You may cross many bridges and you may travel many roads, but you will always carry your own nature with you! Your nature is your shadow! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

People always lean toward who's the best guitar player, who's the best singer? I don't see it that way. They're all the best, you know? They've all gotten your attention, you've admired them, you've tried to sing like them. That makes them the best, each and every one of 'em. — Gregg Allman

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men. — Judd Apatow

LTCM lost money when Russia defaulted on a certain class of bonds, and then they had other investments like on the spread between two different kinds of shares of Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company. Now that seems completely unrelated to Russian bonds. But they were related because other hedge funds saw similar discrepancies and they were all making similar bets. — Richard Thaler

So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS? — Carew Papritz

Through strength I found love
In time I found myself in happiness with you — Alexis Jordan

In a garden, things grow ... but first, they must wither; trees have to lose their leaves in order to put forth new leaves, and to grow thicker and stronger and taller. Some trees die, but fresh saplings replace them. Gardens need a lot of care. But if you love your garden, you don't mind working in it, and waiting. Then in the proper season you will surely see it flourish. — Jerzy Kosinski

I'll give you until nine P.M. tomorrow to get the bloody hell out of this country and out of my way. The nerve. I'd had to bite my tongue on the juvenile impulse to snap, Or what? - you're not the boss of me, second only to an even more juvenile impulse to call my mom and wail, Nobody likes me here and I don't even know why! — Karen Marie Moning

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful. — Al Jarreau