Gudni Th Quotes & Sayings

There is perhaps no law written more conspicuously in the teachings of history than that nations who are ruled by priests drawing their authority from supernatural sanctions are, just in the measure that they are so ruled, incapable of true national progress. The free, healthy current of secular life and thought is, in the very nature of things, incompatible with priestly rule. Be the creed what it may, Druidism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, or fetichism, a priestly caste claiming authority in temporal affairs by virtue of extra-temporal sanctions is inevitably the enemy of that spirit of criticism, of that influx of new ideas, of that growth of secular thought, of human and rational authority, which are the elementary conditions of national development. — T.W. Rolleston

Although the rival cereals of rye, barley,oats, buckwheat and millet have continued to exist in Europe, the triumphal march of king wheat was uncontestable — Norman Davies

It's difficult to relax on tournaments, even in posh hotels, because you don't know how long you will be there - whether you'll lose a match on the first day and leave or whether you'll stay for longer. — Andy Murray

If you're not excited by it, why do you do it? — Amy Adams

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle. — Andrew Fastow

Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. — Joni Eareckson Tada

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes. — Danny Boyle

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything. — Cindy Busby

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're the best and that you'll win every time. — Magnus Carlsen

According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age. — Brian Greene

If socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists. — Friedrich Hayek

I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends. — Gwendoline Christie

Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species. — Sarah Beth Durst