Despotovic Djordje Quotes & Sayings

People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating. — Jonathan Sadowski

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do. — Geena Davis

For years he'd lived by the maxim Henry Green put so beautifully in his public-school memoir Pack My Bag: 'The safest way to avoid trouble if one may not be going to fit is to take as great a part as possible in what is going on.'12 To gain approval, to avoid trouble, he had to mirror what was around him: it was how he had tried to win love from his mother as a child. It was a life of perpetual disguise. — Helen Macdonald

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story. — Josh Fox

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports ... — Carrie Fisher

You let the hair down, and that's when the wild man comes out. — Clay Matthews III

[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature. — Thales

The literary publishers were the Lords of Culture, the master parasites sitting on top of this swarming dunghill. — Jonathan Galassi

Until it had acquired the strength to create in my mind a fresh example of absolute, unproductive beauty ... — Marcel Proust

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? — John Keats

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there. — Keira Knightley