Erlendur Series Quotes & Sayings

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant. In other words, when qualified people are hired without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religious or other differentiating characteristics, that will be the most significant, indeed momentous, event of all. — Amy Trask

The essential question was always "Who are these fellows who give us orders? By what warrant? And how do we benefit and how does the world benefit? But they are doing no good to anyone, no real good even to themselves! This is not government and leadership; this is imposture. Why stand it?...Why stand it? — H.G.Wells

What was he looking for, a prince in fine velvets and a crown cocked on his head? Was it clothes that made a prince, Jemmy wondered, just as rags made a street boy? — Sid Fleischman

The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years. — Dalai Lama

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy. — Christopher Meloni

I never studied, but I had the best teachers. — Mstislav Rostropovich

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home. — David Bowie

The moment we find the reason behind an emotion ... the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free. — Gloria Steinem

Plus, humor ws a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run aaway. Over and over. — Rick Riordan

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton

Be the cyclone of love to extinguish the fire of hatred. — Debasish Mridha