Mladenka Grgic Quotes & Sayings

In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero. — Lyudmila Alexeyeva

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.
And just as it had been tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza roof to take leave of the beautiful city extending as far as the eyes could see, so now I went to the roof of that last and most magnificent of towers.
Then I understood. Everything was explained. I had discovered the crowning error of the city. Its Pandora's box.
Full of vaunting pride, the New Yorker had climbed here, and seen with dismay what he had never suspected. That the city was not the endless sucession of canyons that he had supposed, but that it had limits, fading out into the country on all sides into an expanse of green and blue. That alone was limitless.
And with the awful realization that New York was a city after all and not a universe, the whole shining ediface that he had reared in his mind came crashing down.
That was the gift of Alfred Smith to the citizens of New York. — F Scott Fitzgerald

There is no such place as away. — Chief Seattle

It seemed that freedom of expression had run amuck, or had run as far as the Government would allow it to go. — Kenneth Eade

The conduct of our lives is the true reflection of our thoughts. - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE — Gretchen Rubin

Everyone I know shares toothbrushes. Everyone I know sleeps on each other's floor. Everyone I know uses what they've got and shares what they've got. — Amanda Palmer

ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model. — James Comey

Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty. — Charles Simonyi

If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die. — Mik Everett

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. — Erma Bombeck

All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There is nothing stronger than nature. With nature in front of us we can do everything well. — Joaquin Sorolla

Life is brutal, but it's also beautiful. Life is Brutiful. — Glennon Doyle Melton