Quotes by Croatian Authors - Page 5

Living honestly is a prerequisite for a clear conscience.
Eraldo Banovac
When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal challenge.
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
Being able to endure is sometimes the key to survival.
Eraldo Banovac
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
Designing well-written tests still remains a challenging task. Some complex questions may lose clarity causing difficulties in providing meaningful answers. Basically, questions should be designed in such a way that each well-prepared student can easily give a correct answer.
Eraldo Banovac
Be extremely careful when using irony: bear in mind that irony might be an overture for sarcasm
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
Knowledge is an exceptional kind of property which cannot be lost or used up.
Eraldo Banovac
There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren.
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
Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense.
Eraldo Banovac
Intellectual capacity is a precondition for becoming a man of knowledge.
Eraldo Banovac
You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...
Josip Novakovich
Being naturally happy is the most impressive sign of freedom.
Eraldo Banovac
The best advice will come from the person who has no personal interest in the matter.
Eraldo Banovac
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
One comforting thing about the Trump White House is that you aren't forced to choose between malice and incompetence.
Garry Kasparov
It is much more worthwhile to implement only one bright idea than collecting a thousand of them.
Eraldo Banovac
If one is not prepared to fail, there is no way to achieve success inbusiness and life.
Eraldo Banovac
Stephen King is just one of the numerous modern engineers of human souls. This mega-writer got a mega-advance of seventeen million dollars for his latest book. The communist soul engineers would get an advance on their future historical guilt, crates of vodka, cirrhosis of the liver, and the constant possibility of a knock on the door from the KGB.
Dubravka Ugrešić
Love and advise your children unconditionally.
Eraldo Banovac
I want more from life. I want to travel, see the world, and meet different kinds of people. I don’t want to stay locked in a small country, living my life halfheartedly the way society expects me to live it. I want to experience things and live to the fullest so I won’t have any regrets. I want more, so much more than they do, and they simply can’t understand it.
Anna B. Doe
There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience and patience.
Eraldo Banovac
The precondition for solving a problem is having a clear idea on how tosolve it.
Eraldo Banovac
Life is the greatest teacher because it educates even those who really hate to learn.
Eraldo Banovac
If you do not manage things, be prepared to face the consequences.
Eraldo Banovac
Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon.
Eraldo Banovac
To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life.
Eraldo Banovac
Who knows, maybe one day there will no longer be Literature. Instead there will be literary web sites. Like those stars, still shining but long dead, the web sites will testify to the existence of past writers. There will be quotes, fragments of texts, which prove that there used to be complete texts once. Instead of readers there will be cyber space travelers who will stumble upon the websites by chance and stop for a moment to gaze at them. How they will read them? Like hieroglyphs? As we read the instructions for a dishwasher today? Or like remnants of a strange communication that meant something in the past, and was called Literature?
Dubravka Ugrešić
All this time, William doesn’t move from my side, his hand surely and confidently glued to my waist like it belongs there, one piece of a puzzle that matches the other, making the picture complete.
Anna B. Doe
One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the doubt even to one's enemies
Garry Kasparov