Djurdja Jovanovic Quotes & Sayings

If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands. — Aubrey Plaza

You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you. — Toni Morrison

I just dress like ... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s. — Amy Winehouse

Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that. -Aphrodite — P.C. Cast

I take the definition and title of my job - Representative - seriously. That's what I will be above and beyond everything else. — Grace Meng

Christian consciousness experiences itself in a curious sense as LIBERATED TO FAIL, without intolerable damage to self-esteem and without any reduction of moral seriousness. We are free to be inadequate, free to foul things up, and yet affirm ourselves in a more basic sense than the secular moralist or humanistic idealist (who can affirm themselves only on the basis of merits and accomplishments. We are free to choose and deny finite values, free to take constructive guilt upon us and to see it as an inevitable and providentially given aspect of our fallen human condition.
All that we have said leads us to the pinnacle of this good news: In Jesus Christ we need no longer be guilty before God. It is only before our clay-footed gods that we stand guilty! — Thomas C. Oden

You have more strength than anyone should. All those years that you were alone? That you isolated yourself? You didn't have friends, you didn't have anyone to be close with, to talk with, or ... or play with. You were alone. That must have been painful, and yet you rallied anyway and kept going. It takes strength to stay apart from the crowd. You are brave, Celeste. — Jessica Park

Philosophy calls for plain living, but not for penance; and we may perfectly well be plain and neat at the same time. This is the mean of which I approve; our life should observe a happy medium between the ways of a sage and the ways of the world at large; all men should admire it, but they should understand it also. "Well — Seneca.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. — Oscar Wilde

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art. — E. M. Forster

It will be a great day when taxpayers keep the money they earned and DC has to hold a bake sale to to raise the debt limit. — David Burge

Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in. — Uma Nnenna

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society. — Michael Bennet