Friisberg Quotes & Sayings

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation. — David Malpass

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed. — Elias Canetti

Receive this cross of ash upon your brow
Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday's cross;
The forests of the world are burning now
And you make late repentance for the loss.
But all the trees of God would clap their hands,
The very stones themselves would shout and sing,
If you could covenant to love these lands
And recognize in Christ their lord and king.
He sees the slow destruction of those trees,
He weeps to see the ancient places burn,
And still you make what purchases you please
And still to dust and ashes you return.
But Hope could rise from ashes even now
Beginning with this sign upon your brow. — Malcolm Guite

It's always what you did before. The year before is always so much better. Even when the critics hated what you did then, it always looks better five years later. — Gian Carlo Menotti

The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them-She was the Universe. — Lord Byron

if a man always says no, he shall never say yes — Thien Nguyen

It's not being in the past, but accepting who we were and being who we are. — Roisin Turner

At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent. — Ted Turner

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are. — Walter Isaacson

Modern fiction brings out the evil in domestic lives, ordinary relations, people like you and me -- Reader! Bruder! as Humbert said. Evil in Austen, as in most great fiction, lies in the inability to "see" others, hence to empathize with them. What is frightening is that this blindness can exist in the best of us (Eliza Bennet) as well as the worst (Humbert). We are all capable of becoming the blind censor, or imposing our visions and desires on others. — Azar Nafisi

It is a good thing to be happy alone. It is better to be happy in company, but good to be happy alone. Men owe me the advantage of their society, but if they deny me that just debt, I will not be unjust to myself, and side with them in bereaving me. I will not be discouraged, lest I be miserable for company. More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery. — Thomas Traherne

The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream. — Ted Cruz

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. — Jasper Fforde

You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside — Sue Monk Kidd