Slavenka Drakulic quotes

“How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?”
-- Slavenka Drakulic

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“I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.”
-- Slavenka Drakulic

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“Europe has another meaning for me. Every time I mention that word, I see the Bosnian family in front of me, living far away from whatever they call home and eating their own wonderful food because that's all that is left for them. The fact remains that after fifty years, it was possible to have another war in Europe; that it was possible to change borders; that genocide is still possible even today.”
-- Slavenka Drakulic

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“To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.”
-- Slavenka Drakulic

#Mother Quotes #Son Quotes #Parent Quotes

“Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed.”
-- Slavenka Drakulic

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“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“No one man is superior to the game.”

“Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”

“I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?”

“Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.”