Dukic Kristina Quotes & Sayings

A lot of these women had to overcome cultural conditioning against hurting other people, or even confronting anyone physically. — Carrie Vaughn

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it. — David Mamet

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Sharon spoke slowly and carefully. It was, she'd found, the best way to create an illusion of shamanly wisdom, as people often mistook cautious speech for being thoughtful instead of panic-struck. — Kate Griffin

sometimes i feel like a great chef
who has devoted his entire life
to monastic study of the art of cooking
& gathered the finest ingredients
& built the most advanced kitchen
& prepared the most exquisite meal
so perfect, so delicious, so extraordinary
more astounding than any meal ever created
yet each day i stand in my window
& watch ninety-seven percent of the world
walk past my restaurant
into the mcdonald's
across the street — Daniel Lyons

Hey, corpse-breath, why don't you do everyone a favor and sew your lips shut? It'll match the rest of your face AND be an improvement. - Puck — Julie Kagawa

The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until quite late in the century. Large-scale natural resource development and processing was the name of the game. — Charles R. Morris

On October 7, 1950, the enemy attacked the Tibetan frontier in six places simultaneously. — Heinrich Harrer

Your selling point is that unique quality like integrity,teachability, honesty, humility, skill, sagacity, love, self-confidence, vision, compassion and kindness which distinguishes you among your contemporaries. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Can't command respect unless you act like you deserve it. — Jenn Bennett

Ibn Mas'ud said, "When 'Umar died nine-tenth of all knowledge vanished with him." The people were shocked and said, "How can this be when among us now are still many of the great companions?" Ibn Mas'ud replied,"I am not speaking of the knowledge of fiqh and the science of judgements, I'm speaking about the knowledge of Allah." This struggle of isolation, hunger, sleeplessness, weeping, fear and endless service to men was for this end. The journey is only for knowledge of Allah and the whole of it lies in detachment from everything that passes away. First from what is displeasing to Allah, then from one's self-illusion and desires, and then from all men and all otherness until there is only isolation and extreme nearness to Allah. — Khalid Muhammad Khalid

it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process, — Jon Gordon

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic. — J. Philippe Rushton