Alebo Sweden Quotes & Sayings

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't. — Alan Bennett

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading. — Frank Shorter

The noise of horns and radios and shouted insults was part of the soundtrack of the capital (Hard-boiled P.I. Casta, on Rome, Italy) — Tobias Jones

I considered quitting graduate school. I paid my ticket, I rode the ride. Right? Half the people I started with quit. I did not have to continue toward scholar. But something wouldn't let me. Some deep wrestling match going on inside my rib house and gray matter. Some woman in me I'd never met. You know who she was? My intellect. When I opened the door and there she stood, with her sassy red reading glasses and fitted skirt and leather bookbag, I thought, who the hell are you? Crouching into a defensive posture and looking at her warily out of the corner of my eye. Watch out, woman. To which she replied, I'm Lidia. I have a desire toward language and knowledge that will blow your mind. — Lidia Yuknavitch

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands. — Mahalia Jackson

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least. — Spencer Abraham

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself. — Nikolai Gogol

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen? — Samuel Butler

She looked over a shoulder, a gesture he would never get over, a moment fixed in his mind - the perfection of her skin, the music in her laughter; her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching. And he knew at that precise moment that he would always yearn for Belita, whether they spent their lives together or if they parted that evening and he never saw her again. — Michael Robotham

In the state of despair there is nobody and nothing that accepts. But there is the power of acceptance itself which is experienced. Meaninglessness, as long as it is experienced, includes an experience of the "power of acceptance". To accept this power of acceptance consciously is the religious answer of absolute faith, of a faith which has been deprived by doubt of any concrete content, which nevertheless is faith and the source of the most paradoxical manifestation of the courage to be. — Paul Tillich