Finnur Einarsson Quotes & Sayings

Life is short and the number of books is appalling. — John Cowper Powys

I do think you need different primary kinds of love at different points in your life. — Kate Arrington

Finally, although they didn't want to, Hazel and Jones were chosen to call on Doc. They found him working over a tide chart while he ate a chicken stew of which the principal ingredient was not chicken but sea cucumber. They thought he looked at them a little coldly. "It's Darling," they said. "She's sick. — John Steinbeck

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before. — Owen Chamberlain

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part. — Katherine Applegate

Man is free the moment he wants to be. — Voltaire

Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.'
Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'
And anything worth dying for,' answered the sacrilegious old man, 'is certainly worth living for. — Joseph Heller

He had proved himself to the other men by how well he did at training, how he scaled the obstacles and shimmied up the rough rope, but he had made no friend. He said very little. He did not want to know their stories. It was better to leave each man's load unopened, undisturbed, in his own mind. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I believe that having something new happen, no matter how small, is what makes for a healthy day, no matter how many days may be left. — David Greenberger

When our mistress is alive, a great part of the thoughts which form what we call our loves come to us during the hours when she is not by our side. Thus we acquire the habit of having as the object of our meditation an absent person, and one who, even if she remains absent for a few hours only, during those hours is no more than a memory. And so death does not make any great difference. — Marcel Proust

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity. — C.S. Lewis

When ye've lived as long as I have, ye realize how relative time is. I've endured centuries that passed in the blink of an eye as if I were barely breathing.' He stopped and faced her. 'Or I can experience an entire lifetime in the span of a few nights. All the hope and passion that makes life worth living, 'tis suddenly surrounding me like a gift from God.' (Angus MacKay) — Kerrelyn Sparks

If you're looking for the bad things in life, then you will find it. If you search for the good things then it is what you find. — Ann Marie Aguilar

If anyone doubts its infallible conclusion, he infallibly shows that he has never really performed the experiment. — Peter Kreeft

Pain or damage don't end the world ... — Al Swearengen