Glumice Crnkinje Quotes & Sayings

War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses. — Victor Hugo

It takes about twenty seconds for me to realize — Kim Holden

mobs will be kept at bay, since they cannot climb ladders! Save — Malcolm Becker

Perhaps all love had something of the ridiculous in it. — Barbara Pym

It is said by some that the gods show us their bitter humor by molding us into what we hate most in others. — Raymond E. Feist

Mabel looked up and saw his windburned hands and frayed cuffs, the crow's feet that spread at the corners of his downturned eyes. She couldn't remember the last time she had touched that skin, and the thought ached like loneliness in her chest. Then she spotted a few strands of silver in his reddish-brown beard. When had they appeared? So he, too, was graying. Each of them fading away without the other's notice. She — Eowyn Ivey

It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo. — Steve Ross

The haunted always take refuge in stillness. — Christina Dodd

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart. — Angie Martinez

Leave a chimney-sweep alone when you see him, Chiltern. Should he run against you, then remember that it is one of the necessary penalties of clean linen that it is apt to be soiled. — Anthony Trollope

I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen. — John Waters

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair? — Walker Percy

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works. — Franz Grillparzer