Sramota Citati Quotes & Sayings

What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it. — Aubrey Beardsley

She was inexorably in motion, on her way to a fate that would not include him, and though she missed him still, she was conscious that something had shifted inside her since she'd seen him on the vid. Through some unknown agency, the roar of his loss had diminished to a loud rumble, and the waves had spent much of their fury. The hold he'd left inside her was beginning to knit itself closed, and if she squinted, she could see that one day far in the distance, all that would remain of it would be a ragged seam, sensitive to the touch perhaps, but no longer tender. — Hillary Jordan

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity. — Ambrose Bierce

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies - but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We are all broken. I mean, aren't we now? I am. The whole wide world is. — Jandy Nelson

Loyalty to others speaks volumes about loyalty to self. To love others, one must truly love him/herself first. — Peprah Boasiako

Once a fate cannot be avoided, however horrible it might be, it loses something of its powers of dread — Galen Beckett

Treat other people the way you want to be treated. Most people won't do that because it makes them vulnerable. — Jim "Dandy" Mangrum