Birnir Sigur Sson Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge needs to be a verb. — W. Edwards Deming

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge. — Leroy Hood

The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord's work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them. — Francis A. Schaeffer

He was ashamed of baiting the man, realizing that the absurdity of the story rested in the immaturity of the attitude combined with the sophisticated method of its narration. — F Scott Fitzgerald

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality. — Henry David Thoreau

I like when things are crazy. Something good comes out of exhaustion. — John Mulaney

For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey. — Rainer Maria Rilke

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. — Henry David Thoreau

People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true. — Joseph Boyden

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion. — Amy Chua

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers. — Hillary Clinton