“O fim dos fins, senhores, é não fazer nada, absolutamente nada.”
Source: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“Ah, sloboda, sloboda! Čak i sam nagovještaj, čak slaba nada na njenu mogućnost daje krila duši, zar ne?”
Source: Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
“Sudbina se bestidno igra ljudskim životima, ljudskom srećom. Dokle ću još moći podnostiti tu surovu, bešćutnu igru? Bože Uzvišeni, ostao si mi još jedino Ti, posljednje uporište, utjeha, nada...”
Source: Amanet
“Strah od Njega udaljava te od griješenja prema Njemu, nada u Njegovu milost podstiče te na pokornost prema Njemu, a ljubav prema Njemu vodi te Njemu.”
Source: Taman Orang-orang Jatuh Cinta dan Memendam Rindu
“Juice is a poor man’s dessert.”
“Milk is the only juice in a world of cows.”
“Ambrosial!" Apicius said to me yet again one afternoon as we chopped beets for the evening meal.
The knife revealed dark rings with every slice. There was something precious to me about black food- sinister yet seductive. Oh, how the beet juice would look in glass goblets, the torchlight glinting off the black surface! Apicius loved beet juice, and the rumors about its powers as an aphrodisiac were always a wonderful source of conversation with his guests.”
Source: Feast of Sorrow
“In folk medicine today, the Sambucus nigra -Elderberry is widely considered one of the world’s most healing plants”
“But Sunkist forgot to mention that fruit juice is very bad for us and we can get vitamins and antioxidants in dozens of other foods that don't hurt us in the process.”
Source: Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
“Whack! Came the loud sound of a blade hitting a butcher’s block from around the corner in the kitchen.
“Night, bruh!” Eleu said cheerily to the now quite dead fish.”
Source: Islanders: The Pacific Chronicles