Serbians And Jews Quotes & Sayings

When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out. — Robert Pirsig

I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead. — Abraham Maslow

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell — Stephen Chbosky

Overhead the moon guided him, his fair mistress, his unattainable lover. — Elizabeth Hoyt

Sex makes me the kind of happy that I usually only manage to be in dreams. — Christopher Golden

Sometimes what we seek to gain through "winning" a conflict is not worth what we're refusing to sacrifice. And true compromise often involves sacrifice: As on the path between Scylla and Charybdis, the monsters of Greek mythology who lie on either side of a narrow strait to devour sailors and ships, either way you go there will be losses. Through life experience we gradually learn to differentiate between the ideals, values and principles which can, and those which cannot, be compromised. — Alexandra Katehakis

He slept beneath the moon, he basked beneath the sun; he lived a life of going to do and died with nothing done — James Albery

Wow, Caitlin's dating. Caitlin's going to the movies with a boy, where it's dark." Max shook his head and patted me on the shoulder. "You know what they say, man. With boys, parents only worry about one penis, but with girls, they worry about them all."

My lungs backed up and for a minute, my vision got hazy. Giving in, I bent at the waist and breathed air in nice and slow. Jesus Christ. "Thanks, Max, that's really helpful. — Kristen Kehoe

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. — William Shakespeare

Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews v Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians v Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians v Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants v Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims v Hindus), Sudan (Muslims v Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims v Christians) and Iran and Iraq (Shia v Sunni) are merely a few cases in point. These are places where religion has been the explicit cause of millions of deaths in the past decade. — Sam Harris

I think women are deeply interested in a conversation around fertility. It's not a conversation just for one age group of women, a conversation if you're post 30 or post 35. This [is] conversation about reproduction, about taking your own power with you and deciding for yourself. — Staceyann Chin

They cast injustice and filth at the solitary one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must shine for them none the less on that account! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Hell is in us, like a seed. We need to cultivate the positive within us so we can generate the energy of understanding and compassion and transform hell. — Thich Nhat Hanh

My father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass. He showed us how to be resilient, how to deal with challenges, and how to strive for excellence in all that we do. He taught us that there's nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and passion with an enduring work ethic. — Ivanka Trump

With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion? — Max Brooks

There's one good thing about a mistake. As long as you're alive, you still have time to fix it. — Benjamin Bayani