Borislav Pekic Quotes

#1. The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Hannah Arendt

#2. Each and everyone of us moves towards faiths we cannot possibly know. Each of us struggles against the pain of the world even as we are doomed to join it.

Charles Bock

#3. I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended.

Kate Bush

#4. Captain or mate, M. Morrel, I shall always have the greatest respect for those who possess the owners' confidence.

Alexandre Dumas

#5. A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently

Sunday Adelaja

#6. No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

Ellen Glasgow

#7. You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess.

Julian Barnes

#8. (that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.

Thomas Tredgold

#9. If, in Him all things hold together, why would anyone ever want to be apart from Him?

Van Harden

#10. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing, I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to enter other lives. I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

Mary Ellen Mark

#11. You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.

Ellen Raskin