Famous Bergman Quotes & Sayings

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. — William Graham Sumner

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble. — Anne Enright

Only a short time ago hed envied these brightly plumed birds[ladies in pastel dresses]. They possessed everything money could buy and most had the leisure to enjoy it. Yet their needs were greater than his own. They required a flock of admirers, dozens of servants, expensive clothes, and showy carriages to incite envy among their friends and foes. — Cara Lynn James

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn. — Van Morrison

For me 'Oliver Twist' is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions. — Henning Mankell

If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education
that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children. — Herbert Spencer

You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up. — Katherine Paterson

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere. — Jose Andres

Mothers are the parachutes. — Jandy Nelson

I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation. — Billie Whitelaw

Lead worshipers: Our primary task is simply to help others worship. — Paul Baloche

Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire. — Joseph Smith Jr.

If you do what you've always done, your life will not get better. — Steve Harvey

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd. — John Lydon