Sefkija Radoncic Quotes & Sayings

Each component of this trinity of human endeavor - science, religion, and art - lays powerful claim to our feelings of wonder, which derive from an embrace of the mysterious. Where mystery is absent, there can be no wonder. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less believe in it. It is a myth, which, if everybody believes in it, becomes to that extent self-validating. But it is still epistemological lunacy and leads inevitably to various sorts of disaster. — Gregory Bateson

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros

Did you just wipe your nose on me? he asked, finally. — Nicole Peeler

both the immigrants from the tribe and bloodline and the activists of prosperity share a common delusion: they believe that it is possible to make this transition without paying the price of choosing between values. One side wants change in their circumstances without letting go of tradition; the other, overcome with guilt and pity, wants to help newcomers with the material change but cannot bring themselves to demand that they excise traditional, outdated values from their outlook. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that's the direction I am in now which I call spiritual. — Ziggy Marley

You can throw a bucket of cold water on Russians, and we can take it. But one shouldn't humiliate us! — Vladimir Yakunin

There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn
noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful
is the clearest exception of all. The unicorn was not conceived in fear. Our early sense of Nature's majestry and mysetery is revealed in him. — Odell Shepard

See - this book belongs to you,' Hannah said sweetly.
'No young lady,' the birdman said. 'It belongs to you - but you don't belong to it.'
He leaned in very close to her.
'You belong to you,' he said. — Simon Van Booy

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! — Erin Duffy