Kletve I Blagoslovi Quotes & Sayings

Studying the world's oldest writing for the first time compels you to wonder about what writing is and how it came about more than five thousand years ago and what the world might have looked like without it.

Writing as I would define it serves to record language by means of an agreed set of symbols that enable a message to be played back like a wax cylinder recording.

The reader's eye runs over the signs and tells the brain how each is pronounced and the inner message springs into life. — Irving Finkel

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.' — Jenny Eclair

Alexei was a dream of something more ... He was a reminder that I could be so much more ... — Lada Ray

The shouting came to a halt, replaced by a tense silence that hung in the air like a fog on a cold winter morning. The — Nicolajayne Taylor

Must I say it, ser? You call me love, yet you refuse me, when I have most desperate need of you. Is it so wrong of me to want a knight to keep me safe? - Arianne — George R R Martin

This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.
At any rate I'll never go THERE again!' said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life! — Lewis Carroll

Most of the bad situations I've encountered began with the best of intentions. — John Connolly

They say that doing ten sums a day prevents you from becoming senile. But by that argument bankers should be geniuses. That's not right. Thickest heads in the world. — Annie Proulx

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are. — Matthieu Ricard

I have never thought I could take it, not even
for the children. It is all I have wanted to do,
to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a
long line
of women
who put themselves
first. — Sharon Olds

But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly. — David Selby

He proved that it was equally true if the disregard was by a ruler or by a people. "It spreads like a disease," he said. "And it's infinitely more deadly when the law is disregarded by men pretending to act for justice than when it's simply inefficient, or even when its elected administrator's are crooked. — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

The destiny of all species is extinction as such, fortunately for them. — T.H. White

The Bible is instruction, it is light, it is the Word of God that predicts future events, warns of dangers and holds us back from falling and getting hurt. — Sunday Adelaja