S Quotes
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“Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.”
“Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.”
“Serbia is blamed in advance for everything.”
“Serbia stands firmly on the EU path.”
“Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.”
“Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.”
“Serbs murdered Safet Fejzić, Azmir Alispahić, Sidik Salkić
As well as Smajil Ibrahimović, Dino Salihović, and Juso Delić
These killers called themselves the Scorpions to display power
They thought they were gods, that they ruled society’s tower”
Source: Justice For Bosnia and Herzegovina
“Serbs murdered Safet Fejzić, Azmir Alispahić, Sidik Salkić
As well as Smajil Ibrahimović, Dino Salihović, and Juso Delić
These killers called themselves the Scorpions to display power
They thought they were gods, that they ruled society’s tower
There is a video online that shows the brutality of this crime
How a Serbian Orthodox priest blessed them to show support
These Serbs were so confident that Chetniks would win the war
They thought that they would never see the inside of a court
The cameraman of the Scorpions massacre video was disappointed
Because the camera’s battery was almost out
Can you imagine the level of evil that lived
inside them?
This is why good people have to fight against such scum”
Source: Justice For Bosnia and Herzegovina
“Serce ludzkie bywa czasem tak zgłodniałe, że rzuca się nawet na kamienie, nie czując ich martwoty i chłodu.”
“Serei sempre grato, jamais negarei minha origem, serei forte, tão forte quanto os meus antepassados!”
“Seremos más fuertes cuanto más unidos, y más débiles cuanto más divididos”
“Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.”
“Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.”
“Serena and Jimena walked into the crowd, strides long and seductive. Jimena wore a silver bustier and capris with matching sandals. Her hair was rolled on top of her head with glitter and jewels. Curls bounced with each step. Her face gleamed; her full lips sparkled. The tattoos on her arms seemed iridescent. She whooped and squealed and gave Serena a high five.
Serena had moussed her hair so it stood on end. Streaks of orange glitter shot from her temples into her hair. She wore a yellow tulle skirt over a sheer, clingy red dress and looked like a walking flame.”
Source: Goddess of the Night
“Serena gazed at his features. He hadn't shaved since they'd been on the trail, and dark whiskers covered the lower half of his face. His dark hair was blue-black, shiny as a raven's wing. Long black eyelashes lay against lean cheekbones. She wanted to see his eyes and on an impulse kissed one eyelid. His lips, almost too red for a man, curved into a smile, but he didn't open his eyes. Serena tried again, this time touching the outer eyelid with the tip of her tongue. His response thrilled her.
With sudden strength he pulled her down on the bed. "What are you up to, madam minx?" She always forgot just how strong he was until he handled her. Arms like manacles wrapped around her, caging her against him.
"I want to play." She squirmed out of his grasp. His eyes finally opened and Serena caught her breath. There was such a look of happy love coming from them. She sat up and, movements slow, sought to mesmerize him. She uncoiled her hair from its knot, letting the strands wrap around her shoulders the way he liked. He watched in worshipful silence, then reached for her, the dance begun.”
Source: The Duchess and the Dragon
“Serena hadn't told Sydney to go home. She hadn't told her to run away. She told her to go somewhere safe. And over the course of the last week, safe had ceased to be a place for Sydney, and had become a person.
Specifically, safe had become Victor.”
Source: Vicious
“Serena Killingsworth walked toward them, carrying her cello in a brown case. Her short hair, currently colored Crayola-red, was twisted into bobby-pin curls. A nose ring glistened on the side of her nose. She wore purple lipstick, red-brown shadow around her green eyes, and a smile that seemed to hold a secret. She was new at school. Vanessa liked her look and especially admired the way she seemed so oblivious to what other people thought about her.”
Source: Goddess of the Night
“Serena looked through the violently rotating flames and saw Vanessa, Jimena, and Catty running toward her. They looked like goddesses; Vanessa dressed in shimmering blue, Jimena in lightning-strike silver, and Catty in wild strawberry pink, their hair bouncing in silky soft swirls with each step.”
Source: Into the Cold Fire
“Serena maintains today that as George grew older he also grew out of his mind. Many men do, in my experience. Life does not come up to their expectations: they grow older, and disappointed. At fifty they realise others have passed them by, made more money, won more respect. Their sexual drive fades and the self-esteem that goes with it. They take to litigation and shake their fists at other drivers.”
Source: She May Not Leave
“Serena’s body isn’t built to emulate the look of the model in an Ann Taylor shift dress. It’s built – through an exacting and grueling regimen – to decimate her opponents. And his suggestion that the body, too, is beautiful and sexy – in spite of, or even because of, its threat to the norms of white femininity – will continue to be threatening until the standards of beauty are decentered from those of the white upper class.”
Source: Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
“Serena's not worried her friend is gonna feel bad she's not as good at tennis as Serena is. You know why? Because in order to be as good as Serena, you have to decide that your goal is that NO ONE is going to be as good as you are at tennis.
Then you have to make it true.”
Source: Year of Yes
“Serena walked off campus and when she was sure no one was watching, she headed down a side street, then ran over to La Brea.
Stanton's car was parked in from of Pink's hot dog stand. Its sleek black metal reflected the late afternoon sun. He glanced up and smiled in recognition. He walked up to her and wrapped his arms tenderly around her. She pressed against him, enjoying his gentle touch. Then he kissed the top of her head and she looked up at him, her eyes now unguarded.
"Ready?”
Source: Into the Cold Fire
“Serena whirled, turning toward Lorelei, her eyes wild as she considered the second choice she had just been offered. Lorelei gave her a small nod.
She shifted to Kary, silently begging her younger sister to have mercy.”
Source: Elysian
“Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist."”
“Serena Williams best female player ever - no question.”
“Serendipitous connections become less likely as increased communication narrows our tastes and interests. Knowing and caring more and more about less and less. This tendency may increase productivity in a narrow sense while decreasing social cohesion.”
Source: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
“Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.”
“Serendipity always rewards the prepared.”
“Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.”
“Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.”
“Serendipity is not the product of patience; it’s the product of action.”
“Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.”
“Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.”
“Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.”
“Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another.”
“Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice”
Source: Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
“Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.”
“Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.”
“Serene I fold my hands and wait.”
“serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving.”
Source: The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)
“Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.”
Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...
“Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.”
Source: The Writings of John Burroughs: The light of day. 12. Literary values and other papers
“Serengeti Trek Vacation Bible School 05, where kids are wild about God!.”
“Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.”
“Serenity barely heard the last of his words as he made his way out of the cabin. Instead, her attention was on the quick, clean strokes of Morgan’s writing. It amazed her that a pirate would be literate. Especially one sold so young to the sea.
She broke the seal.
I feel like a weed in the midst of Winter. ’Tis the sunshine of your smile that will bring back the Spring of my days. We arrive in four days. I hope you will grace me again with your presence.
Yours,
Morgan
She traced the flowing letters with the tip of her finger and couldn’t suppress a smile. A poetic pirate no less. Who would have thought?”
Source: A Pirate of Her Own
“Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“SERENITY COMES WHEN YOU DON'T TRADE EXPECTATIONS FOR ACCEPTANCE”
“Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.”
“Serenity fills as you rise above the good and bad and sense God all around, for all there remains is a collectedness, a pervasive peace beyond all intellect.”