Joska Broz Quotes & Sayings

The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural. — Arjuna Ardagh

Everything's so accelerated now. — Dan Stevens

Now, I pray you, cast yourself into a different world, a different trail of thought; step into a place where dragons live and breathe, where they are as real in touch and voice as you or I. Where they face the same extinction every day that they have suffered in our world: the extinction of myth ... yet where they battle every moment to fend off such a fate for another day ... — Alexis Steinhauer

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays. — Nicholson Baker

[The] defining characteristics of good prose [are]: a preference for short sentences diversified by an occasionally very long one; a tone that is relaxed and almost colloquial; a large vocabulary that enjoys exploiting the different etymological and social levels of words; and an insistence on verbal and logical precision. — F.W. Bateson

The world is full of people running — Elizabeth Swados

Aunt Loretta doesn't look like herself, but she doesn't look broken. — Heidi W. Durrow

an unbroken line of unrelated people — Cathleen Schine

These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up to confront him with all its essential sloppiness, irrationality, and bad business sense. — T.C. Boyle

I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue. — Ma Jian

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. — Vincent Van Gogh

The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex - not that which never has divined it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

William Wilberforce ... w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life ... To forget such men is foolish. — J.I. Packer

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family. — Wilford Brimley

Love is wonderful. Hate is not. Man seeks woman to love. They do not when they hate. What makes this so? Perhaps no one knows. Man will continue to love and hate. — Lao Chang