Bygdeboker Quotes & Sayings

There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt any desire to do so, but would have been glad, could he be glad of anything, to fling himself down at the root of the nearest tree, and lie there passive for evermore. The leaves might bestrew him, and the soil gradually accumulate and form a little hillock over his frame, no matter whether there were life in it or no. Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds. — David Chilton

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments ... — Samuel Johnson

Brightness ... I believe you stray into sarcasm."
"Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it,screaming at the top of my lungs. — Brandon Sanderson

Women do come up to me after a show, but it's usually to say, 'Yhank you for making us laugh,' and all that. — Vir Das

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition. — Mark Twain

Spiritual awakening is not ultimately the work of invisible cultural forces. Instead, it is the work of learning to see differently, of prayer, and of conversion. It is something people do. — Diana Butler Bass

In politics, guts is all. — Barbara Castle

Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration. — Anthony Daniels