Ljudmila Beckovic Quotes & Sayings

We ought never have been given the ability to love. — Cassandra Clare

When you're home-schooled, you have to have a certain level of work ethic. Otherwise, you don't get anything done. — Seth Numrich

A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary. — John Adams

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances. — Ronnie Milsap

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media. — Bill Mumy

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say. — Rene Descartes

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much. — Henry Ford

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three. — Townsend Harris

I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly. — Antonya Nelson

I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian. — Jonathan LaPaglia

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers. — Peter Weiss

I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not goodness at all, but merely force. — Cameron Dokey

I love 'Game of Thrones.' — Robin Thicke

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself. — Friedrich Nietzsche