Finlanders Quotes & Sayings

Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen. — Meher Baba

How queer it was for two lovers to suddenly turn into strangers? — Diyar Harraz

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets — Spiro T. Agnew

When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want. — John Niven

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources. — George C. Lorimer

No two nations differ more from each other than the Russians and Finlanders. The former are as active, acute and sensible, as the latter are slow, heavy and stupid. — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

The [Gila River area is] so utterly desolate, desert, and Godforsaken, that Kit Carson says a wolf could not make his living upon it." | U.S. Representative THOMAS HART BENTON addressing the house of representatives, June 26, 1854 — Margot Mifflin

The Bundists did not wait for the Messiah, nor did they plan to leave for Palestine. They believed that Poland was their country and they fought for a just, socialist Poland, in which each nationality would have its own cultural autonomy, and in which minorities' rights would be guaranteed. — Marek Edelman

"Stand up against the wall!" That's what everybody gets offered, especially women. When women started appearing on TV again in something other than the girl or the mother role it was all, "Get up against the wall," or, "The skin underneath her fingernail would tell me that she," you know, forensic stuff. Oh, God gross. Now, they're hunting terrorists. — Debra Winger

I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many. — Jeanette Winterson

Someone will always be looking at you as an example of how to behave. Don't let him down. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward, he explained. — J.W. Lord

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off. — Burt Young