Slavenko Grgurevic Quotes & Sayings

Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave their political supporters deeply disillusioned. You can't inflate away your troubles or allow mountains of debt to build up if, as a country, you have to make your living in a globally competitive environment ... Building prosperity requires caution and patience. It requires time. Populism is a short cut that doesn't work. — Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously. — Chris Colfer

These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy. — Leo Tolstoy

And language, ( ... ) is not just another faculty or skill, it is what makes thought possible, what seperates thought from nonthought, what seperates the human from the non human. — Oliver Sacks

This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them. — Jack Bowman

A career is a job that has gone on too long. — Jeff MacNelly

None of them noticed the girl covered in ash as she
snaked along their gardens, setting fire to their begonias. — Veronica Bane

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible. — Edward Jenks

I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me. — J. Tillman

Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart. — Ludovico Ariosto

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. — H.P. Lovecraft

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling. — Joyce Brothers

If you have an Internet-connected system, there's no wall currently that you can build that's high enough or deep enough to keep a dedicated nation-state or even a sophisticated criminal group out of your system. — John Carlin

I always imagined heaven being a place far, far away with winged babies playing harps and floating on the clouds. Now honestly, that doesn't sound like a place where I want to be for eternity. It sounds terrible and boring. In fact, if I ever saw a naked chubby baby with wings, I'd probably run as fast as I could the other way; I — Jefferson Bethke