Flindt Pullert Quotes & Sayings

For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end. — Desiderius Erasmus

I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely. — David Nicholls

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers. — Bernard Berenson

Even music can't compete with the wildflowers and waterfalls. — Marty Rubin

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. — David Mitchell

I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too. — Thomas Jefferson