Zlatas Diary Quotes & Sayings

The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence. — Pankaj Mishra

The formula is simple enough. If you want more headaches and misery in your life, keep complaining, they're on the way. If you want happiness and joy, give your attention to the things you are grateful for, and then sit back and watch them grow. — D.S. Luca

I never think about anything in my brain. I think in very small repetitive circles inside my own brain. That's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I get any sort of conclusion or understanding about anything. — Melissa Febos

In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics , etc. These, among others far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still. — Jacques Ellul

You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots. — Lauren Oliver

I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last. — Al Forman

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy. — Larry Ellison

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it. — Shirley Manson

But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned. — Terry Pratchett

Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly. — Michelangelo