Distinctively Sweden Quotes & Sayings

It's also said that a society's prison system is how best to measure their civilization. If that's so, we're fucked. — Sara Lunsford

Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault. — Jim Butcher

Passion has been in my DNA for generations. — Julio Iglesias

It's never going to be the same," he muttered despondently. "Next newleaf, you'll see," Fireheart replied, trying to cheer him up. He hoped Graystripe was only referring to the damage caused by the fire, and not a sense that he could never recover his old place within the Clan. "Everything will grow back stronger than before. — Erin Hunter

I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like 'An American Werewolf in London' in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway. — James Roday

Peace is the wait of the patient soul. — Candace Wheeler

We all die someday. Maybe the only thing that makes that fact bearable is the idea that death is the only way we can return to the stars. — Beth Revis

In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and even then he was little molested until his copy was turned in at the desk; today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire, and the reduction of his observations to prose is commonly farmed out to literary castrati who never leave the office, and hence never feel the wind of the world in their faces or see anything with their own eyes. — H.L. Mencken

He had already decided that X rays, sonic probes, neutron beams, and all other nondestructive means of investigation would be brought into play before he called up the heavy artillery of the laser. It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing. — Arthur C. Clarke

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. — Don Roff

Administrators don't believe in conspiracies. If they did, they'd have to resign their jobs. That — James Lee Burke

Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power. — Stewart Brand

But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you. — Cassandra Clare

Every hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back. — Frederick William Faber

As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points. — John Barrasso