Birgitta Lindman Quotes & Sayings

I knew it to be good advice, and ignored it — Patrick Rothfuss

Rule number three: Never assume. — Anne Fortier

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves. — Aeschylus

If the fluidification of forms of behavior required by a developed economy was incompatible with a normative catalog of restrained conduct, it was, however, perfectly suited to a perpetual celebration of the will and the ego. — Michel Houellebecq

All of the grace with which he moved and lived, all of his elegance and composure would fall away like the thinnest, gossamer-like film, to reveal the manic beast within. — Lynn Kelling

Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject? — Ernestine Rose

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
[Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.] — Plautus

As someone whose days were defined by the ten thousand ways a human can hurt, she needed, now and then, to remember that the nervous system didn't exist exclusively to feel pain. — Anthony Marra

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Some people want to know why I wished to be called Francis. For me, Francis of Assisi is the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who loves and protects creation. — Pope Francis

I'm not going to pay good money to join a club that lets in people like me. — Groucho Marx

There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God. — Aleister Crowley