Aksel Sandemose Quotes & Sayings

I can sit in denial of my life because in looking around I see how lucky I am to have survived it. — K. Farrell St. Germain

The basal ganglia, in other words, stored habits even while the rest of the brain went to sleep. — Charles Duhigg

Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life. — L. Ron Hubbard

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow. — Cher

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it. — George H. W. Bush

Castes never meant that much to me. — Kiera Cass

I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently. — John Legend

With flowing tail and flying mane,
Wide nostrils never stretched by pain,
Mouth bloodless to bit or rein,
And feet that iron never shod,
And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod,
A thousand horses - the wild - the free -
Like waves that follow o'er the sea,
Came thickly thundering on. — Lord Byron

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron. — Libba Bray

If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it. — John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon Of Tara

The oldest of the three Abrahamic religions, and the clear ancestor of the other two, is Judaism: originally a tribal cult of a single fiercely unpleasant God, morbidly obsessed with sexual restrictions, with the smell of charred flesh, with his own superiority over rival gods and with the exclusiveness of his chosen desert tribe. During the Roman occupation of Palestine, Christianity was founded by Paul of Tarsus as a less ruthlessly monotheistic sect of Judaism and a less exclusive one, which looked outwards from the Jews to the rest of the world. Several centuries later, Muhammad and his followers reverted to the uncompromising monotheism of the Jewish original, but not its exclusiveness, and founded Islam upon a new holy book, the Koran or Qur'an, adding a powerful ideology of military conquest to spread the faith. — Richard Dawkins

guided towards the writings of a 1930s Danish-Norwegian author, Aksel Sandemose, for a better understanding of how best to 'integrate' into the workplace in Denmark. — Helen Russell

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it — Quentin Crisp

We have a duty to our country to participate in the political process. See, if you believe in freedom, you have a duty to exercise your right to vote to begin with. I'm [here] to encourage people to do their duty, to go to the polls. I want all people, no matter what their political party is or whether they even like a political party, to exercise their obligation to vote. — George W. Bush

The great Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose once said, liberally translated, the only things worth writing about are love and murder. — Henning Mankell