Egenskapen Quotes & Sayings

When it comes down to it, Matthew was just another disillusioned idealist, an over-reactive Hamlet type--couldn't take it that the world was real. — Graham Swift

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight. — Epictetus

The problem with you middle-class gay guys is, you pass for white. You move to the metropolitan gay centres, and you're more or less closeted--"private", you'd call it--when you step outside the ghetto. You assimilate yourselves, and suddenly you've got property to protect and money invested. I ask you, what impelled the militants of the civil rights movement of the sixties? You know what impelled them? They had nothing to lose. That's how they could brave the police dogs and the fire hoses. Even torture and death. Could you have done that? — Ethan Mordden

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is. — Alex Ferguson

European affairs are no longer reserved for the executive. — Udo Di Fabio

Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it. — David Hume

You protest, and with justice, each time Hitler jails an opponent; but you forget that Stalin and company have jailed and murdered a thousand times as many. It seems to me, and indeed the evidence is plain, that compared to the Moscow brigands and assassins, Hitler is hardly more than a common Ku Kluxer and Mussolini almost a philanthropist. [In an open letter to Upton Sinclair, printed in The American Mercury, June 1936] — H.L. Mencken

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. — John Muir

And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince. — Joan Collins

The best version of Foursquare is the one you don't think about using. — Dennis Crowley

Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed. — Robert Ludlum