Matija Sarkic Quotes & Sayings

On their own merits modest men are dumb. — George Colman

I wanted to slice barren into my skin. That's how I'd stay, my insides unused. Empty and pristine. I pictured my pelvis split open, to reveal a tidy hollow, like the nest of a vanished animal. — Gillian Flynn

Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life. — Rick Larsen

I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out. — Johnny Depp

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife) — Alexander Pushkin

If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader. — George Saunders

She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don't know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life. — Michael Ondaatje

A butterfly does not mourn the passing of its former caterpillar, nor a snake, the shedding of its former skin. — Noah Fregger

True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level by those who live them. — Dave Snowden

Only a keen sense of public duty restrains me from plugging you where you sit, you ineffable swine. — Sapper

Everybody's over here to make money for themselves. — Betty Hill

If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it. — Malcolm X

We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes, it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month or a year. So don't fear love when it comes simply because it makes you vulnerable. But don't be surprised when it leaves either. Just be glad you had the opportunity to experience it. — Neil Strauss

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt. — Dave Ramsey

The hero of my tale," Tolstoy wrote when he was just twenty-seven, "whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and always will be beautiful - is Truth. — Leo Tolstoy