Hranovac Quotes & Sayings

More than half the colonists who came to the North American shores in the colonial period came as servants. — Howard Zinn

There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness. — Chang-rae Lee

I can't prevent you from becoming what you want, but I refuse to nurture a bad habit. — Joan Ambu

I've never hit anybody in my life. I never would, and the only way I could make a point was by hurting myself ... It's something I've done since I was a teenager. — Richey Edwards

Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine. — Jean Ingelow

Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you. — Mason Cooley

We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation.

The Ambassador [of Tripoli] answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.

{Letter from the commissioners, John Adams & Thomas Jefferson, to John Jay, 28 March 1786} — Thomas Jefferson

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie! — Wendell Phillips