Bjarte Engeset Quotes & Sayings

He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride. — Julie Anne Long

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music. — T Bone Burnett

In reality, there are many little circumstances too often omitted by injudicious historians, from which events of the utmost importance arise. The world may indeed be considered as a vast machine, in which the great wheels are originally set in motion by those which are very minute, and almost imperceptible to any but the strongest eyes. Thus, — Henry Fielding

The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer's passivity. — Watchman Nee

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. — Lewis Mumford

Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes with a price. Forty years wandering through the desert. Or incurring the wrath of two very pissed-off parents. — Gayle Forman

Building a temple atop a minehead, when the local tulpas haunted the dangerous galleries and tunnels of Below, had not been the wisest judgment ever made. I tried to remember if this had been my idea. Somehow I had the feeling that it was. — Jay Lake

Young Bob Lincoln and Elmer Ellsworth . . . were cutting up in the office, and Lincoln reproved them. Bob replied by quoting the well-known couplet

A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men.

"So it is," said Lincoln; "that's the difference between the wise man and a fool, who relishes it all the time. — Emanuel Hertz

She's strong? Who's strong? Isn't she just pretending to be tough? She looks as if ... She could get crushed so easily ... — Minari Endou