Doxat Sarajevo Quotes & Sayings

To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things. — Isaac Asimov

I can say it, but it doesn't seem convincing to most people. I can call it an 'injustice,' but that doesn't always sink in either. You have to understand the nature of the culture in New York. Words that are equal to the pain of the poor are pretty easily discredited. A quarter of the truth, stated with lots of indirection, is regarded as more seemly.

Even when people do accept the idea of 'injustice,' there are ways to live with it without it causing you to change a great deal in your life. A mildly embarrassed toleration of injustice is an elemental part of cultural sophistication here. the stile is, 'Oh yes. We know all that. So tell us something new.' There's a kind of cultivated weariness in this. Talking about injustice, I am told, is 'tiresome' unless you do it in a way that sounds amusing. — Jonathan Kozol

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. — Robert Plant

In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioural research laboratories running around inside wheels and conduction frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misinterpreted this relationship was entirely according to these creatures' plans. — Douglas Adams

The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve the established by moulding public opinion, and right well it serves it. — Jack London

What leader has no lessons to learn from his followers? — Toyotomi Hideyoshi

And then he wanted to say he was sorry, but just that sometimes he felt un-understandable and sometimes he worried when they bickered and she went a while without saying she loved him, but he restrained himself. — John Green

Although personal calling I sense,
Who am I? even if I am,
I don't know. — Dejan Stojanovic

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value. — Jodi Picoult

They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me. — Idina Menzel

Trust is key to restoring investor confidence. Rebuilding trust requires business to think and communicate differently. — Richard Edelamn

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief — Walter Lippmann