Dositej Obradovic Quotes & Sayings

If you plug in the neocortex ratio for Homo sapiens, you get a group estimate of 147.8-or roughly 150. "The figure 150 seems to represent the maximum number of individuals with whom we can have a genuinely social relationship, the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who they are and how they relate to us. — Malcolm Gladwell

I was deeply impressed by the fact that my life could lose three days without my having any awareness of it. Maybe this was a preview of death: continuous visions and dreams and vague glimpses of reality. Only with death you never wake up: you keep having the weird images forever. — John Marsden

I don't..." Crash swallowed, "I don't want this to happen again." "What to happen again?" "This, Sora!" he said harshly. She sat back, stunned by the show of emotion. — T.L. Shreffler

I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in. — Nick Woodman

A fast car can make women 'like' a man; and a man 'like' women ... fast. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. — J.D. Salinger

Great stories are sacred, whether they're true or not. — Maria Kvilhaug

In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat. — Derek Ibbotson

I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them. — Catherynne M Valente

Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear. — William Shakespeare

Just 'Your mother.'" But it doesn't work if girls say it to each other," she continues. "You have to have a penis for it to affect you in such a way. — Melina Marchetta

Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all. — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas