Zlata Quotes & Sayings

The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman. — Zlata Filipovic

War is no joke, it seems. It destroys, kills, burns, separates, brings unhappiness. — Zlata Filipovic

There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that. — Taylor Lautner

The sea? What's that? — Zlata Filipovic

How you can come to love an animal! She doesn't talk, but she speaks with her eyes, her paws, her meows, and I understand her. — Zlata Filipovic

Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl without a school, without the fun and excitement of school. A child without games, without friends, without the sun, without birds, without nature, without fruit, without chocolate or sweets, with just a little powdered milk. In short, a child without a childhood. — Zlata Filipovic

My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and willing to accept anything and everything I had to say. — Zlata Filipovic

Choose to deal with inhumane situations in a humane way, we can turn the world around and create positive lessons for ourselves and for others. — Zlata Filipovic

It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all - the pencil of war, which spells only misery and death. — Zlata Filipovic

So Orpheus did for his owne bride,
So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring. — Edmund Spenser

The deaths, well, they did stack up, one after another. Kind of hard not to take them personally. Did I blame myself? Hell to the no. Did it piss me off and make me want to douse the entire compound in gasoline and start throwing matches? Hell yes. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

intrepid adventurer would have been seen in those sparsely populated — Bob Biderman

War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days. — Zlata Filipovic

I need start start reading more and watching less TV. — Self

The heavy weight of many a weary day Not mine, and such as were not made for me. — William Wordsworth

Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we deal with it, we can rise above it and stay strong and true to ourselves. — Zlata Filipovic

It looks to me as though these politics mean Serbs, Croats and Muslims. But they are all people. They are all the same. They all look like people, there's no difference. They all have arms, legs and heads, they walk and talk, but now there's "something" that wants to make them different. — Zlata Filipovic

We could start, perhaps, with the seemingly simple question, What is History? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. Simpson?' Colin was more prepared than me. 'History is a raw onion sandwich, sir.' 'For what reason?' 'It just repeats, sir. It burps. We've seen it again and again this year. Same old story, same old oscillation between tyranny and rebellion, war and peace, prosperity and impoverishment.' 'Rather a lot for a sandwich to contain, wouldn't you say?' We laughed far more than was required, with an end-of-term hysteria. 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." ' 'Is it, indeed? Where did you find that?' 'Lagrange, sir. Patrick Lagrange. He's French. — Julian Barnes

A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, In silence. — Plutarch

It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have such perseverance and you have to really believe that if you have any sort of talent at all, you will find work one day. — Renee O'Connor