Tvoja Noc Quotes & Sayings

Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. — Carol S. Dweck

Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain. — John Desmond Bernal

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses. — Dan Savage

Knowledge is a priceless gift of enlightenment — Lailah Gifty Akita

Well,' said Staines, frowning slightly, 'that's very difficult to say - which to value higher. Honesty or loyalty. From a certain point of view one might say that honesty is a kind of loyalty - loyalty to the truth ... though one would hardly call loyalty a kind of honesty! I suppose that when it came down to it - if I had to choose between being dishonest but loyal, or being disloyal but honest - I'd rather stand by my men, or by my country, or by my family, than by truth. So I suppose I'd say loyalty ... I myself. But in others ... in the case of others, I feel quite differently. I'd much prefer an honest friend to a friend who was merely loyal to me; and I'd much rather be loyal to an honest friend than to a sycophant. Let's say that my answer is conditional; in myself, I value loyalty; on others, honesty — Eleanor Catton

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience. — Rachel Weisz

For hours she lay on the ground, alternately body and space. Sometimes a vision of normal comfort obliterated reality: — Maxine Hong Kingston

The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine to know, is it? — Kim Edwards

This fantasy about the disposability of black life is a constant in American history. — Teju Cole

I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have. — Colum McCann