Best Balkan Quotes

#1. I was not prepared to play the role of singer in the camp of the warriors

Leon Trotsky

#2. No word of ignorance leaves no double thoughts on a plain page with a headline without extra lines of madness marked on it.

Auliq Ice

#3. I told her I hated normal people and the land of the fucking free and the home of the asshole brave, and I hated God and George and all and everything.

Aleksandar Hemon

#4. Congress and the American people have good reason to fear that we are heading toward another permanent garrison of Americans in a Balkan country where our mission is confused, and our exit strategy a complete mystery.

John McCain

#5. In a Balkan country, not so many years ago, a party which had been beaten by a narrow margin in a general election retrieved its fortunes by shooting a sufficient number of the representatives of the other side to give it a majority ... Cromwell and Robespierre ... acted likewise..

Bertrand Russell

#6. When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

Romare Bearden

#7. Stupidity was usually a lesser crime than vigilantism.

James S.A. Corey

#8. My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.

Don Knotts

#9. All we'll ever need is within each other," Serena said, her voice barely more than a whisper. "Even when we have our child, it will only be an image of what we already are.

Ron Rash

#10. You can always spot the real thing, that affection; why does it always come from the wrong person?

Jess Walter

#11. He is loyal to you. It is his desire to be with you that drives him to these desperate schemes.

A.G. Howard

#12. I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

Nancy Friday

#13. If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

Pat Buchanan

#14. A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.

Sasha Cohen

#15. I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.

Steven Wright

#16. Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Shana Alexander

#17. Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

Carla Bley

#18. Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on.

Angelica Hopes

#19. We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been obstructed. Now we have to suffer the punishment ... In the Balkan Wars, Serbia not only doubled its territory, but also its external enemies.

Dimitrije Tucovic

#20. One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

Aleksandar Hemon

#21. We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

Winston Churchill

#22. I have been informed about the death of Slobodan Milosevic. It is unfortunate and in many aspects unsatisfactory, given the countless victims of the Balkan wars, that justice now will not be able to run its course.

Jaap De Hoop Scheffer

#23. There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.

Edgar Allan Poe

#24. Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.

Ahmet Davutoglu

#25. How about we go through the festival once before picking a spot?"
"Why?" I ask.
"Because I enjoy apples," he replies. Rosie giggles. "Because then we can go if there's a spot that would be particularly easy to grab a girl from," he answers again, voice serious this time.

Jackson Pearce

#26. The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths.

Aleksandar Hemon

#27. We should remember what Bismarck said in 1888: "If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans." Balkan

George Friedman