Srdjana Cvijetic Quotes & Sayings

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong. — Ronald Reagan

The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I'm benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to reckon with every day, because I know that if I ever allow genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other and to that extent I can accept myself. — James Nachtwey

I do not believe in the beauty of falling. — Mary Szybist

You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music. — C.S. Lewis

Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers. — David Steindl-Rast

For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron. — Nick Hornby

Then he leaned forward and rested his cheek against mine. Hot tingles spread through me as his lips moved against my ear. "You should tell me to stop."
I didn't say a word. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished. — Haruki Murakami

Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair. — Will Rogers

As I stood in contemplation of the garden of the wonders of space," Milosz writes, "I had the feeling that I was looking into the ultimate depths, the most secret regions of my own being; and I smiled, because it had never occurred to me that I could be so pure, so great, so fair! My heart burst into singing with the song of grace of the universe. All these constellations are yours, they exist in you; outside your love they have no reality! How terrible the world seems to those who do not know themselves! When you felt so alone and abandoned in the presence of the sea, imagine what solitude the waters must have felt in the night, or the night's own solitude in a universe without end!" And the poet continues this love duet between dreamer and world, making man and the world into two wedded creatures that are paradoxically united in the dialogue of their solitude. — Gaston Bachelard

I know that Annie Lennox has saved my life quite a few times, and I never forget that. — David A. Stewart

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns. — Helen Rowland

There's been a big void out there, in terms of where I've been and what I am currently working on, I'd like to fill that void now and share my exciting plans for the future. — Priscilla Presley

Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth. — Frances Trollope