Quotes by Croatian Authors - Page 2

It is much more worthwhile to implement only one bright idea than collecting a thousand of them.
Eraldo Banovac
Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them.
Eraldo Banovac
An idea is like a spark in the dark – it makes everything brighter.
Eraldo Banovac
When an idea for solving a problem suddenly presents itself, ask yourself if all circumstances related to the problem were properly analyzed.
Eraldo Banovac
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights
Garry Kasparov
Being naturally happy is the most impressive sign of freedom.
Eraldo Banovac
This isn't the end, and a beginning looks different. This is the moment in between, when everything still looks possible.
Zoran Drvenkar
One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the doubt even to one's enemies
Garry Kasparov
Dictators seem to learn from history much better than democrats
Garry Kasparov
Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one
Garry Kasparov
See . . . um . . . the thing is, I met with Lisa a few days ago. She wanted to apologize for . . . Halloween, and not calling . . . Thing is, her previous story . . . um . . . She wanted me to read it. She . . . wanted to explain her issues. She was jealous . . . of you and me becoming friends and . . . kinda lost it, I guess.My point is, um . . . she used the story to put it into words . . .I think she is writing messages. . . to you.
Stjepan Šejić
Some stories are easy to follow, and easy to tell. There is an introduction, a twist, and a happily-ever-after. And when telling the story, everyone forgets those small details, like that one quiet morning when the two of you woke wake up with the sunrise and talked about cookies. Or that night when she had her period, and the cramps were killing her, and she just needed your hug and something warm.
Andrea Tomić
I don't know what I was looking for . . . I felt empty. I guess. Not hearing from you made it all seem surreal, like you were never there, a dream, a figment of my imagination.I went to your site that day to . . . I guess, double-check.I thought. . . maybe you wrote something, a new story . . . a message . . . anything.I did find a new story . . . It wasn't about us . . .And I ended up feeling even emptier.
Stjepan Šejić
Look now,' Vesna's mother continued, 'what do you know, a civil war might break out any minute: Serbs would fight with Croats, Czechs would fight with Slovaks, Hungarians would fight with Jews. how can you be sure of anything?''But, Mother, if this happens, then it will such big trouble that nobody would think about a shortage of pantyhose,' protested Vesna.'You'd be surprised, my dear, to know that people have to live and survive during wars, too. Besides, how do you think we survived communism?
Slavenka Drakulić
Being able to endure is sometimes the key to survival.
Eraldo Banovac
Tonight I feel like a shooting star, but I hope my shine will last much longer.
Bernard Jan
No matter where you live, live with dignity.
Eraldo Banovac
Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important.
Eraldo Banovac
That woman wants to hear all my wishes,For already a thousand years,And each my thought knows to read,Even if I don't utter it aloud.
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets
Inner peace comes from a clear conscience.
Eraldo Banovac
There’s no reason to cry over spilled milk. People cannot change the things that have already happened.
Eraldo Banovac
The strictest judges are ignorant people.
Eraldo Banovac
Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.
Eraldo Banovac
Time runs independently of us, and we cannot comprehend the flow of time. Time is a category in itself.
Eraldo Banovac
Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.
Eraldo Banovac
A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.
Eraldo Banovac
In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.
Eraldo Banovac
The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.
Eraldo Banovac
Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.
Eraldo Banovac
Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.
Eraldo Banovac
Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.
Miroslav Volf
Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.
Eraldo Banovac
The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict. We tend to translate the presumed wrongness of our enemies into an unfaltering conviction of our own rightness.
Miroslav Volf
Always think about the needs of others because being a part of a group isan essential characteristic of human nature.
Eraldo Banovac
Adapting to changes represents an important characteristic of human nature, essential for the development of human society.
Eraldo Banovac
We are intelligent and compassionate creatures and we can make choices. We can fortify our hearts in goodness and do the right things. Or we can turn our heads the other way and pretend again that bad things are not happening. That they will disappear because they have nothing to do with us, because we are not accountable. Well, this is also our choice. But in that case, I am afraid, this world will be lost for us.
Bernard Jan
A good thing in one's ignorance is that one doesn't know that s/hedoesn't know.
Eraldo Banovac
I do not respect a person without sadness in their eyes, but i do envy them..
Danilo Vukovljak
Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.
Eraldo Banovac
To live with integrity, it is important to know what's right and what's wrong, to be educated morally. However, merely KNOWING is not enough. Virtuous character matters more than moral knowledge. The reason is simple: like the self-confessing apostle Paul in Romans 7, most of those who do wrong know what's right but find themselves irresistibly attracted to its opposite. Faith idles when character shrivels
Miroslav Volf
A moral foreign policy means your positions on certain matters are clear no matter what, and that you won't forget about them when it's convenient.
Garry Kasparov
The power of positive thinking is vital for maintaining happiness, goodhealth and longevity.
Eraldo Banovac
The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
Garry Kasparov
Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.
Eraldo Banovac
Why did you run away last time?” William asks quietly, so quietly that at first, I think I’m imagining it...“Because you are dangerous for me,” I say in the same tone so that he is the only one who can hear me...“Because,” I say, but then I stop, my throat suddenly too dry.7…6…My tongue darts out to wet my lips before continuing in a hurry. “Because…”5…“You could be everything I ever wanted.” 4…3…“Everything and so much more.
Anna B. Doe
I've seen you fuck up one major relationship. I'll be damned if I let you ruin this one as well!
Stjepan Šejić
The folktale world is oriented positively toward its protagonist; a folktale is defined by the hero's triumph: magic weapons and helpers are, with the necessary narrative retardation, at his beck and call.
Darko Suvin
I believe in a world in which science is the key for supporting thedevelopment of a happy future for humanity. So, I advocate for such asituation in which scientists would speak louder. If science is silent, there is no way to solve high priority problems at a global level, such as: the gap between developed and undeveloped countries, poverty, limited energy resources, limited food and even drinking water (especially related to the population growth phenomenon), global warming and rapid climatechanges, etc.
Eraldo Banovac
I want his eyes to stop looking at me like that, and at the same time, I have always wanted to be looked at just like that. Now, when I look into the brown depths of his eyes… I feel desired. I feel confident.I feel free.I feel like a woman.
Anna B. Doe
True, I was rather alone, but loneliness isn't proof of not being right.
Krleža
Jesus offered a single incentive to follow him; it was woven into all he said and did. Here is how I would after twenty-four years of following summarize his selling point: "Follow me, and you might be happy--or you might not. Follow me, and might be empowered--or you might not. Follow me, and you might have more friends--or you might not. Follow me, and you might have the answers--or you might not. Follow me, and you might be better off--or you might not. If you follow me, you may be worse off in every way you use to measure life. Follow me nevertheless. Because I have an offer that is worth giving up everything you have: you will learn to love well.
Samir Selmanovic
I’m not sure if I managed to respond or not; maybe it was all just in my head, a dream, like all others, in which he sneaks into my head when I don’t have any power to hold him at arm’s length.But William was right about one thing.I did have sweet dreams, or maybe it was just a beautiful nightmare.
Anna B. Doe
Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don't have friends.
Eraldo Banovac
You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.
Eraldo Banovac
Nowadays, using a computer has become a way of life.
Eraldo Banovac
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community ofhumans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners. But no onecan be in the presence of the God of the crucified Messiah for long withoutovercoming this double exclusion — without transposing the enemy from thesphere of the monstrous… into the sphere of shared humanity and herself fromthe sphere of proud innocence into the sphere of common sinfulness. Whenone knows [as the cross demonstrates] that the torturer will not eternallytriumph over the victim, one is free to rediscover that person’s humanity andimitate God’s love for him. And when one knows [as the cross demonstrates]that God’s love is greater than all sin, one is free to see oneself in the light ofGod’s justice and so rediscover one’s own sinfulness.
Miroslav Volf
Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.
Miroslav Volf
Learn always and wherever possible, knowing that you'll never learneverything.
Eraldo Banovac
One should learn by considering one's own failures that are a part of life.
Eraldo Banovac
Learning continuously is the best way to build one's intellectual capacity.
Eraldo Banovac