Gjermund Larsen Quotes & Sayings

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. — Salman Rushdie

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds. — Mark Twain

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred. — John Podhoretz

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error. — Bill Johnson

Everybody wants to cut off the limb to to deal with the problem. You can't just keep cutting off limbs and destroying fruit. We have to become committed enough to examine the root. The root of the problem in our community, in our country is a systematic problem. And until all who are a part of the problem admit their role in the problem, we will never have a holistic solution. — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Heroes aren't heroes because they worship the light, but because they know the darkness all to well to stand down and live with it. — Ninya Tippett

To be great, be entire:
Of what is yours nothing
exaggerate or exclude
Be whole in each thing. Put all that you are
Into the least you do
Like that on each place the whole moon
Shines for she lives aloft. — Fernando Pessoa

You may wonder why I haven't killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable. — Simon Van Booy

I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures. — Bill Vaughan

These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation. — Malcolm X

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old. — C.E. Murphy

I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help. — Roald Dahl