Devetsil Literatura Quotes & Sayings

Nobody is born as a champion. You have to earn it through hard work. Get started! — Wladimir Klitschko

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this. — Kelly Clarkson

Sitting for even five minutes with a journal offers a rare cease-fire in the battle of daily life. — Alexandra Johnson

That is to say, our physical ability to understand time has been honed by evolutionary pressures to select for traits useful for survival, in all aspects, and time perception is no exception or special case or even magical or mysterious case. — Charles Yu

Let me go!" I screamed, but it was a wasted effort. Dean was determined to hold me. Determined never to lose his grip.
"I'm never going to let you go again. — Jaimie Roberts

It was impossible to believe that Alan was lying in that pale, plain pine box merely from having caught a summertime disease. That box from which you cannot force your way out. That box in which a twelve-year-old was twelve years old forever. The rest of us live and grow older by the day, but he remains twelve. Millions of years go by, and he is still twelve. — Philip Roth

A pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I go into the crowd almost everyday and I really really really despise it when people try to steal my shoes. That is a thing where they're proabably like 'oh, you can just go out and buy a new pair'. Like yeah, but those are my shoes. How would you feel if I tried to steal your shoes? — Jack Barakat

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. — Tom Wolfe

Remember this moment when you first realized that the government can't properly take care of people. In fact, that's never been their responsibility. They're supposed to keep our borders safe so that we can live as we wish. It's our responsibility - yours and mine and Zenos's and everyone else's - to take care of each other. — Trish Mercer

I used myself, let nothing use me.
Like being on a private dole,
sometimes more like cutting bricks in Egypt.
What life there was, was mine,
now and again to lay
one hand on a warm brick
and touch the sun's ghost
with economical joy. — Adrienne Rich

You don't have to like something to accept it. — Lori Deschene

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then. — David Byrne

Convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication. — Jane Austen