Mijatovic Precka Quotes & Sayings

A discourse approaches universality when it frees itself from its origins, leaves them behind, disavows them: having reached this point, if it would reinvigorate itself, avoid unreality or sclerosis, it must renounce its own exigencies, break its forms and its models, it must condescend to bad taste. — Emil M. Cioran

You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them. I have noticed this point too, my friends, that in soldiering the people whose one aim is to keep alive usually find a wretched and dishonorable death, while the people who, realizing that death is the common lot of all men, make it their endeavour to die with honour, somehow seem more often to reach old age and to have a happier life when they are alive. These are facts which you too should realize (our situation demands it) and should show that you yourselves are brave men and should call on the rest to do likewise. — Xenophon

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in. — Lily Cole

As you well know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear, can you? — Jimi Hendrix

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object. — William Hazlitt

I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about. — Oliver

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things. — Benjamin E. Mays

The moment we understand life, we will begin to live. — Lailah Gifty Akita