Jasenko Djozic Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire. — Steven Tyler

131/ Writing a novel is like having a baby. I know because I've had both, and the experiences were hellish. By comparison, the torture of the damned - plunged into excrement, boiled in blood, beheaded, set upon by harpies - are like love nips from your yippy little dog. — Kim Addonizio

Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts. — Mason Cooley

I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder. — Thomas Jefferson

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life. — Randy Travis

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. — Mahatma Gandhi

The individualism of American life, to our glory and despair, creates anger and encourages its release; for when everything is possible, limitations are irksome. When the desires of the self come first, the needs of others are annoying. When we think we deserve it all, reaping only a portion can enrage. — Carol Tavris

There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them. — Christopher Isherwood

Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense. — Vine Deloria Jr.

Desire! It carries us and crucifies us, delivers us every new day to a battlefield where, on the eve, the battle was lost; but in sunlight does it not look like a territory ripe for conquest, a place where - even though tomorrow we will die - we can build empires doomed to fade to dust, as if the knowledge we have of their imminent fall had absolutely no effect on our eagerness to build them now? We are filled with the energy of constantly wanting that which we cannot have, we are abandoned at dawn on a field littered with corpses, we are transported until our death by projects that are no sooner completed than they must be renewed. Yet how exhausting it is to be constantly desiring ... — Muriel Barbery

In my day-to-day, I do a bit of yoga, I go biking, I read, I watch shows, I go to music concerts. — Lizzie Brochere

I'm not trying to scare you though. There is a lot of interesting science behind it all and although precautions are important, in the grand scheme of things for most healthy individuals, reducing calories for only a few days and increasing fats on a diet where fats are already high shouldn't be cause for too much concern. — Ella Coleman

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others. — Brander Matthews