Malecka Balasevic Quotes & Sayings

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter. — Robert Green Ingersoll

If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations ... don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species. — Joyce Carol Oates

It would be wrong to suggest that Scotland could not be another such successful, independent country. — David Cameron

The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement. — Michael K. Williams

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever. — E. Lockhart

I know my mother has always looked at strangers as friends. — Jeanne Phillips

Lust fades after climax, love lasts until breakfast! — Tom Conrad

But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die — Robin Hobb