Jelisaveta Karadjordjevic Quotes & Sayings

I love writing things down so pretty much every card I send to friends or family is an over enthusiastic essay. I've written some pretty good ones in my time. — Rae Morris

After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled to drop everything and move. But I've been teaching for a long time. More than four decades. — Joan Larkin

Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle. — Paramahansa Yogananda

fruits of rationalism, the fatal error and great plague of our century, the pestilential source from which our revolutions and social disasters arise, is the absence of the sense of the supernatural and the profound neglect of the great truths of the future life. The earth is afflicted with a dreadful desolation, — Charles Arminjon

Buying a share of a good business is better than buying a share of a bad business. One way to do this is to purchase a business that can invest its own money at high rates of return rather than purchasing a business that can only invest at lower ones. In other words, businesses that earn a high return on capital are better than businesses that earn a low return on capital. — Joel Osteen

We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers $3.8 billion annually. Securities fraud alone costs four times that. And securities fraud is nothing to the cost of oil spills, price-fixing, and dangerous or defective products. Fraud by health-care corporations alone costs us between $100 billion and $400 billion a year. No three-strikes-and-you're-out for these guys. Remember the S&L scandal? $500 billion. — Molly Ivins

It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do. — Aaron Spelling

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. — Jerry Saltz

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling. — Art Garfunkel

Loneliness is a terrible blindness. — Christina Stead

But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal. — Malala Yousafzai

The dialogue fills the auditorium like an unrefrigerated boxcar of month-old steaks. — David Sedaris

There are a lot of murder ballads out there, but most of them are about killing the woman. I was like, "We've gotta turn this around!" — Valerie June

This lifestyle is not about deprivation. It's about living inspired. — Gene Baur

He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn't seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time. — Cassandra Clare