Drvena Kuca Quotes

#1. People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.

Katherine Boo

#2. I moved out eventually of the White House and moved into a townhouse with a group of girls while I was in college.

Susan Ford

#3. You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the people in your life; rather than sort of backing up and making sure it's okay with everybody at every turn.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. Los Angeles is full of places to hide a body, but when the person inside the body doesn't love you, it's not an easy thing, turning that breathing person into a dead one.

Caroline Kepnes

#5. From his angle, the curtain seems to form itself into a shrouded, wavering figure, indescribably terrifying in its very indistinctness. Something waiting, hovering on the threshold of the visible world. Some half-embodied fear gradually assuming a hideous outer form.

Christopher Isherwood

#6. Not all, nor even a majority, are saved ... They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

Saint Augustine

#7. What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

Brian Aldiss

#8. A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#9. It's worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero

David Brooks

#10. It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#11. It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.

Richard P. Feynman

#12. Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.

Ellen Hopkins

#13. That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair.

Bucky Harris

#14. Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.

Austin Kleon

#15. A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.

Caitlin Doughty