Gyllenberg Suomi Quotes & Sayings

Once upon a winter I met a man in the woods The man beckoned me over To see a satchel of goods He offered three wishes I asked for beauty, love, riches And he froze me in stone where I stood. - "The Greedy Ghost of Cypress Pass," common folk song — Marie Lu

My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit. — Willie Morris

Peace and not war is the father of all things. — Ludwig Von Mises

SENSE OF SOMETHING COMING: I am like a flag in the center of open space.
I sense ahead the wind which is coming, and must live
it through.
while the things of the world still do not move:
the doors still close softly, and the chimneys are full
of silence,
the windows do not rattle yet, and the dust still lies down.
I already know the storm, and I am troubled as the sea.
I leap out, and fall back,
and throw myself out, and am absolutely alone
in the great storm. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Betrayal is an ironic thing. He or she betrays you then you betray yourself. You think you're showing strength with your anger, but in reality you're showing how much you still care. — Shannon L. Alder

Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family. — John Updike

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love. — W. H. Auden

Well, I suppose nearly anything is possible, though some things are much more possible than others! — Rick Yancey

God isn't fooled by mercenary goodness I told myself and went back to manic smiling. — Janice Galloway

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. — W. Somerset Maugham

There are some battles, no matter how much you don't want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for. — Paullina Simons

But I know this, that we can do better without the voice that preaches than without the heart that prays. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to indulge in his hobbies ... and he was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes to the wider world. — Peter L. Bergen