Fossekallen Quotes & Sayings

He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride. — Ursula K. Le Guin

At bottom, politics was a hullabaloo of equal and individual competitors who would only be guaranteed to cooperate for one cause: the elimination of anybody who threatened to step out of line and grab too much power for himself. It follows that there was nothing resembling today's political parties ... Since the fall of the monarchy in 510 BC, Roman domestic politics had been a long, inconclusive class struggle, suspended for long periods by foreign wars. during one never-to-be-forgotten confrontation over a debt crisis in 493 BC, the entire population withdrew its labor (14). — Anthony Everitt

Success is a wonderful addition to my life. — Robert Munsch

Isaac's humility did not discriminate between man and man and scarcely between man and watch. In his thought men were much like their watches. The passage of time was marked as clearly upon a man's face as upon that of his watch and the marvelous mechanism of his body could be as cruelly disturbed by evil hazards. The outer case varied, gunmetal or gold, carter's corduroy or bishop's broadcloth, but the tick of the pulse was the same, the beating of life that gave such a heartbreaking illusion of eternity. — Elizabeth Goudge

If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about. — Leroy Hood

over? He's just going through a phrase. — Lizzy Burbank

This moment of dawning is called taqwa - God-consciousness, and ihsan - awareness. Suddenly you know that God can see you and knows you, even if you do not know or see Him. — Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

I think ... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.' — Kurt Vonnegut

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life. — Larry Page

ditched Grover as soon as we got to the bus terminal. — Rick Riordan

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself. — Rashida Jones

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. — Lord Byron

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing. — Thomas Merton

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast. — Tom Peters

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art ... — Phyllis McGinley