Djordjevic Dragan Quotes & Sayings

Josh is loving and kind, and he knows me better than anyone. He knows the real me, and he likes me for who I am. Josh is ... Josh. And now he's gone. I press my wet face into my pillow. This is what heartbreak feels like. — Carolyn Mackler

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him. — Mark Twain

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. — Mickey Spillane

Well, now," Mrs. Havisham said, all but purring as she leaned forward, ample cleavage on display. "You've grown up, haven't you? Tell me, Gustavo. What are your thoughts on having an experienced lover?"
"Not many," Gus said. "In fact, none at all. Also? I came out when I was thirteen. You were there. As was the whole town. Pastor Tommy announced it at the Fall Harvest Festival. On stage. Into a microphone. There was apple pie afterward."
"Still?" she said with an exaggerated pout.
"Yes," Gus said, deadpan as he could make it. "Still. Funny how that works."
"Well, if you change your mind, you know where to find me," she said, dragging a pink fingernail down his arm. "My door is always open. Like my body."
"That's not even remotely healthy," Gus said with a sniff.
"Maybe that's why I need your protein," she said with a wink.
"Nope," Gus said. "Nope, nope, nope."
"You sure about that?"
"Maybe you should close that door. And your legs. — T.J. Klune

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- — Langston Hughes

That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business. — Paul Kearney

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. — Mother Teresa

For the devil never slumbers. And the nearer we are to perfection, the more careful we must be, since his temptations are then much more cunning because there are no others that he dare send us; — Teresa Of Avila

Both thought and the senses were fine things, behind both of them lay hidden the last meaning; it was worth while listening to them both, to play with both, neither to despise nor overrate either of them, but to listen intently to both voices. — Hermann Hesse

It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true visions when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self. — Elizabeth Berg

Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space. — Eddie Rickenbacker

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? — Herman Melville

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. — Robert Noyce

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle.

But one thing I'd figured out about labels early on: naming something didn't actually help you fix it. That was really all psychology was. It catalogued mental diseases, made neat little charts with symptoms and checkboxes. It couldn't cure a damn thing - least of all me. Lance — Skye Warren