Zlatibor Quotes & Sayings

It is as if we want to believe the lie. Perhaps we blame ourselves because in a strange way it helps us feel as if we have more control. If we are responsible for whatever went wrong, for whatever hurt us, we might be able to figure out how to keep it from happening again. — Edward T. Welch

Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners? But — Janet Fitch

Want? Yes, she whispered, her eyes sliding closed. Yes I want to keep you more than I want to breathe. — Skye Jordan

According to Bertrand Russell, the virtuous stoic was one whose will was in agreement with the natural order. He described the basic idea like this: In the life of the individual man, virtue is the sole good; such things as health, happiness, possessions, are of no account. Since virtue resides in the will, everything really good or bad in a man's life depends only upon himself. He may become poor, but what of it? He can still be virtuous. A tyrant may put him in prison, but he can still persevere in living in harmony with Nature. He may be sentenced to death, but he can die nobly, like Socrates. Therefore every man has perfect freedom, provided he emancipates himself from mundane desires. — Piper Kerman

I only know when I don't know a thing ... wisdom lies in that. — George MacDonald

I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life. — Meriwether Lewis

Early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills. — Alice Hoffman

In persons grafted in a serious trust,
Negligence is a crime. — William Shakespeare

There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are their lives, and especially their sexual lives, on center stage. — Garth Greenwell

I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints. — Pauline Quirke