Goranov Vijenac Quotes & Sayings

Grace is costly because it calls us through our person to the person of Jesus Christ. And when we follow the person of Jesus Christ, when we follow his call through our person, we're sent to act for the concrete person of our neighbor in the world. — Andrew Root

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family. — Rachel Brosnahan

I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television. — Nancy Marchand

Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in tropical countries, and midsummer days. The luxury of fire is, to have a little on our hearth; and of electricity, not the volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires. So of spirit, or energy; the rests or remains of it in the civil and moral man, are worth all the cannibals in the Pacific. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To us, the argument for material well-being might seem uncontroversial. But in the eighteenth century, material prosperity was frequently condemned as "luxury" by religious and civic moralists. It was not a morally neutral word but a pejorative one, connoting not comfort but excess, the possession of nonnecessities. The notion of luxury was intricately connected with the existence of a recognized social hierarchy: what was necessary for those of high status was regarded as excessive for those of low status. Luxury meant the enjoyment of material goods not appropriate to one's station in life. Critics of luxury saw it as confounding social ranks. P. 40 — Jerry Z. Muller

I went for a more classical approach to filmmaking with lots of dolly, track and cranes, and slightly slower, more choreographed fight moves, so you get more fight moves in one take. — Paul W. S. Anderson

Everyone should prepare NOW for this change, for I promise you that it will come, and only those who are ready will survive. — Sathya Sai Baba

Back when childhoods were often so protracted, it is unsurprising that so many people got into the lifelong habit of believing, even after their parents were gone, that somebody was always watching over them - God or a saint or a guardian angel or the stars or whatever. People — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Any family without an entrepreneur has a limited hope. — Auliq Ice

Great things only come with great effort. — Art Briles

Everything happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge1 — J. Scott McElroy

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly. — John Avlon

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work. — Nick Cave

The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I've been in so much trouble. I threw an apple at Lea's face. I fought guards. I cheated on my trig exam."
Aiden looked at me, frowning. "You cheated on your math exam?"
"Uh, forget that. Anyway, wow, I'm just surprised. — Jennifer L. Armentrout