Zeljkovic Dragan Quotes & Sayings

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be, — Lee Kuan Yew

The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers and not words. No explanations seemed necessary. They were not friends, Comrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Mathew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly adult. They looked out at the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the machine. — Arundhati Roy

My king, I do not know all things but I do know that we mortals cannot orchestrate for the gods what they have agreed to accomplish. — Ray Anyasi

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity. — Christian Nestell Bovee

If you do nothing, nothing will get done and nothing will change. — Debasish Mridha

Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog. — Dwight Longenecker

People do kill themselves, you know, Miranda, when they think their whole reason for living is being taken away from them. Even the fact that other people think their suffering is a joke isn't enough to shake them out of it. — Robert Galbraith

And as a general rule, which may make all creditors who are inclined to be severe pretty comfortable in their minds, no men embarrassed are altogether honest, very likely. They conceal something; they exaggerate chances of good luck; hide away the reals state of affairs; say that things are flourishing when they are hopeless; keep a smiling face (a dreary smile it is) upon the verge of bankruptcy
are ready to lay hold of any pretext for delay, or of any money, so as to stave off the inevitable ruin a few days longer. — William Makepeace Thackeray

World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures fulfil their Destinies. — Oswald Spengler

Thus, sir, you see when faith is lacking, it becomes impossible to create certain states of happiness, for we lack the necessary humility. Vaingloriously, we try to substitute ourselves for this faith, creating thus for the rest of the world a reality which we believe after their fashion, while, actually, it doesn't exist. — Luigi Pirandello

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think. — Jacob Bronowski

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. — Jackie Kennedy

To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame. — Stephen Levine