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Milorad Quotes By Ramananda Prasad

You have control over doing your respective duty, but no control or claim over the result. Fear of failure, from being emotionally attached to the fruit of work, is the greatest impediment to success because it robs efficiency by constantly disturbing the equanimity of mind. — Ramananda Prasad

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time. — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

And he gave me a few of the Xeroxed sheets of paper lying on the table in front of him. As he passed them to me, his thumb brushed mine and I trembled from the touch. I had the sensation that our past and our future were in our fingers and that they had touched. And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago. I gained and learned more by not reading than by reading those pages ... — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By Thales

The past is certain, the future obscure. — Thales

Milorad Quotes By Malala Yousafzai

We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies. — Malala Yousafzai

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

Each of us promenades his thought, like a monkey on a leash. When you read, you always have to such monkeys: your own and one belonging to someone else. Or, even worse, a monkey and a hyena. Now, consider what you will feed them. For a hyena does not eat the same things as a monkey ... — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By Lauren Oliver

I wander through the halls and the campus, thinking how strange it is that you can live your whole life in one place and never really look at it. — Lauren Oliver

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

Tenecki smelled smoke, cursed, and thought:
-Never enough time for eternity!! — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did. — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By Marty Rubin

Words are the best bargain. You get them for free and they never run out. — Marty Rubin

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

He knew that when charging on horseback or making love exhaling was more important than inhaling. — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By Henri J.M. Nouwen

If God is compassionate, then certainly those who love God should be compassionate as well. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

In the direction that your fear is growing, you're on the right path. — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

A bird foraging for food in the swamps and marshes sinks rapidly if it doesn't move. It has to keep pulling its feet out of the mire to move on, regardless of whether it has caught something or not. And the same applies to us and to our love. We have to move on, we can't stay where we are, because we'll sink. — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By William Regal

In the 27 years I've been doing this I never thought I'd find a better wrestler than me, but I found him. Daniel Bryan. — William Regal

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the angel's eyes turn violet — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Dodik

I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable. — Milorad Dodik

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still. — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago. — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By Kevin Garnett

I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms. — Kevin Garnett

Milorad Quotes By Anthony Liccione

When eyes have died in its gaze, know the heart had died in its blaze. — Anthony Liccione

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

I dream in a language I do not understand when I'm awake. — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

It is not I who mix the colors but your own vision,' he answered. 'I only place them next to one another on the wall in their natural state; it is the observer who mixes the colors in his own eye, like porridge. Therein lies the secret. The better the porridge, the better the painting, but you cannot make good porridge from bad buckwheat. Therefore, faith in seeing, listening, and reading is more important than faith in painting, singing, or writing.'
He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the angel's eyes turn violet.
'I work with something like a dictionary of colors,' Nikon added, 'and from it the observer composes sentences and books, in other words, images. You could do the same with writing. Why shouldn't someone create a dictionary of words that make up one book and let the reader himself assemble the words into a whole? — Milorad Pavic

Milorad Quotes By Milorad Pavic

He was creating the first letters of the Slavonic alphabet. He started with rounded letters, but the Slavonic language was so wild that the ink could not hold it, and so he made a second alphabet of barred letters and caged the unruly language in them like a bird. — Milorad Pavic