Mrdjan Jankovic Quotes & Sayings

Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil. — Nelson Mandela

A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession. — Aldo Leopold

Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom. — Barbara Taylor Bradford

Diamond heists, romance & intrigue feature in Stella di Mare. — Patricia Bellomo

If you wanted to predict how people would behave, Munger said, you only had to look at their incentives. — Michael Lewis

But what in life wasn't connected to some greater, sadder story? — Hanya Yanagihara

If you respected someone, then you had to ask something of them. — Eric Greitens

I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained. — John Hawkes

I'm a big believer that your word is your wand. You know how people say things like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm such an idiot.' I don't say things like that anymore. Those put-downs, even if they're in jest, are little bullets of negativity that you don't need in your life. — Mariska Hargitay

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place. — Arthur Schopenhauer

PANDARUS
You are such a woman! A man knows not at what ward you
lie.
CRESSIDA
Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon my wit, to defend
my wiles; upon my secrecy, to defend mine honesty; my mask, to
defend my beauty; and you, to defend all these; and at all these
wards I lie at, at a thousand watches.
PANDARUS
Say one of your watches.
CRESSIDA
Nay, I'll watch you for that; and that's one of the
chiefest of them too. If I cannot ward what I would not have hit,
I can watch you for telling how I took the blow; unless it swell
past hiding, and then it's past watching. — William Shakespeare