Stankovci Quotes & Sayings

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists. — Jasmine Guy

I know this independence is what people like most about my brand. — Raf Simons

Remember to forget yourself — Kamand Kojouri

All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity. — Muhammad Yunus

Sometimes it takes a two-by-four across your head to realize what you want isn't what you'll end up with if you get it. — Kim Harrison

They warned of taints lingering from the Builders' war, stains from their poisons, or shadows from the Day of a Thousand Suns. — Mark Lawrence

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed. — Oliver Stone

I once knew a fellow who committed robbery with violence, and he was sentenced to a long prison stretch and 12 strokes of the cat. He'd been injured during the robbery, so they put him in hospital to make him better so that they could make him worse. During the administration of the cat, he fainted after six strokes, and the doctor put him in hospital again. And he got very friendly with the nurses and the doctors, and after a while they got him well enough to go back and take the next six strokes. I saw him afterward and I said: "Oh, Jesus - that bloody law, that bloody judge!" But he said: "I don't want the fellow who made the law, and I don't want the fellow who passed the sentence. All I want is the fellow who held the bloody whip. — Peter O'Toole

The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege. — Simone Weil

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written. — Anthony Trollope

Writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them. — Erica Jong

Sewers are necessary to guarantee the wholesomeness of palaces, according to the Fathers of the Church. And it has often been remarked that the necessity exists of sacrificing one part of the female sex in order to save the other and prevent worse troubles. One of the arguments in support of slavery, advanced by the American supporters of the institution, was that the Southern whites, being all freed from servile duties, could maintain the most democratic and refined relations among themselves; in the same way, a caste of 'shameless women' allows the 'honest woman' to be treated with the most chivalrous respect. The prostitute is a scapegoat; man vents his turpitude upon her, and he rejects her. Whether she is put legally under police supervision or works illegally in secret, she is in any case treated as a pariah. — Simone De Beauvoir

I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where writing about a fire (and about the attempt to understand the event), also becomes an attempt to understand how writing might get closer to the fire, in so many ways. — Laura Mullen

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Comes down to your training, your heart, your mind, your soul, and who wants it more. — Diego Sanchez