Djoric Miljana Quotes & Sayings

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others. — Matthew Simpson

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man. — Ralph Waite

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death. — Diane De Poitiers

Fuck what they think. This is about doing what I love, following my dreams. If they like it, that's just icing on the cake. If I lived my life worried about everyone else, I would go insane. — Teresa Mummert

But now, I don't feel silly. I just feel a rush of something up through my heart, wide and deep as a river of light, and it rushes over the banks, and up through the throat and into the mouth and out my eyes, a great big surge of something that for so long had no name, a fugitive animal in a wood, and I know the name of it now, and what it is, is love. — Harrison Scott Key

Your courage is there right alongside of your fear. — Sanna Anderson

Or perhaps she would be applying her innovative light therapy to the White House staff. — Ayse Kulin

The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will. — Michel De Montaigne

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling. — Garrison Keillor

The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity. — Umberto Eco

My house contains every useless thing in the world. it lacks only the one essential, a piece of sky like this one ... — Marcel Proust

But everything good in this shit world is either by prescription, sold out, or so expensive you have to sell your soul to taste it. Life is a restaurant you can't afford. Death the bill for the food you didn't even have a chance to eat. So you order the most expensive thing on the menu - you're in for it anyway, right? - and if you're lucky, you get a mouthful. — Jo Nesbo

FOR some inexplicable reason the sense of smell does not hold the high position it deserves among its sisters. There is something of the fallen angel about it. When it woos us with woodland scents and beguiles us with the fragrance of lovely gardens, it is admitted frankly to our discourse. But when it gives us warning of something noxious in our vicinity, it is treated as if the demon had got the upper hand of the angel, and is relegated to outer darkness, punished for its faithful service. — Helen Keller