Croatian War Quotes

#1. The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.

Sylvia Plath

#2. On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

Ted Rall

#3. For most people, the central questions of existence ultimately come down to transcendental ones: Why is there a universe at all? Why are we here?
Whatever presumptions one might bring to the question "Why?," if we understand the "how" better, "why" will come into sharper focus.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#4. Yeah, we're not perfect, neither of us, but I can't deny the electricity between us. There's something there that we aren't meant to understand.

Kandi Steiner

#5. I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland.

Nikola Tesla

#6. Surrender to life today. Don't fight anything. Just enjoy the flow.

Judith Orloff

#7. Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities.

Franjo Tudjman

#8. Turning her body slightly to the left, he gently bends her knee, breaking eye contact to lick her slowly, from Venice to Trieste - then down the Croatian Coast, the length of Serenissima.

Kristen Caven

#9. I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh.

Jim Brown

#10. Yandex translation from Croatian to English: Nomadom was the time when the ratio of beauty began to think about how about love than between two parts, in which opposites attract only magical powers, and the same ratio is equal to the lords and architecture and nature.

Jasna Horvat

#11. My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.

Ian Schrager

#12. I study dead languages for a living," I said. "That's why you hired me. Why should I be up to speed on your line of work? How's your Serbo-Croatian? What's your position on the relationship between Oscan and Marrucinian?" He

Neal Stephenson

#13. I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

Nathaniel Buzolic

#14. Treasure the moments, her heart whispered. If you don't learn to treasure the moments, you'll never be able to treasure the memories.

Janette Oke

#15. Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.

Leon Battista Alberti

#16. My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.

Tamara Ecclestone

#17. Tell the truth and . . .run!"
Old Croatian proverb

Teresa Toten

#18. Fame separates you from life.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#19. For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.

John Pomfret

#20. I feel absolutely no loyalty to Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian national causes. I have no other emotion but utter contempt for people who helped destroy Yugoslavia, and I feel the same about the people who are now selling what is left of it." (p. 13)

Andrej Grubacic

#21. In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics.

Sally A. Kitt Chappell

#22. I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

Garry Kasparov

#23. I ate mythology & dreamt'
- Yusef Komunyakaa (Blackberries)

Yusef Komunyakaa

#24. An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: The hunchback sees the hump of others - never his own.

Harlan Coben