H M L Inen Osakunta Quotes & Sayings

Nationalism as a thesis confuses (almost always deliberately) certain legitimate desires with illegitimate ones. People like to run their own affairs, and most people value the culture they were raised in, are proud of its achievements and wish it well; a significant degree of their sense of personal and group identity derives from it. All this is unexceptionable. But nationalists try to persuade their fellows that the existence of other groups and cultures somehow represents a challenge, and sometimes a threat, to what the natives of the home culture value. (From: Toward the Light of Liberty) — A.C. Grayling

A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose total experience outdoors probably consists of two overnight hikes and a weekend in the Catskills. But we have just had that confrontation. The one who goes by Pritchard's book is Sid's wife, and I am wary. It is not my expedition. I am a guest here. — Wallace Stegner

There had to be one universe - just this one - where we don't end up together. Here and now just happens to be it. — Gaby Dunn

To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more — Nicolas Gomez Davila

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility — Joseph Conrad

Girls who wouldn't take risks both loved and hated girls who did. Bridget — Ann Brashares

I can't survive losing you twice.

-Blythe — Christine Feehan

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these ... terrible people who rise through the ranks. — Jonathan Meades

Love has no age as it is always renewing itself. — Blaise Pascal

I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate. — Whitney Cummings