Helgi Olafsson Quotes & Sayings

The percentage of mentally disturbed people in the United States is very high. From the time the American gets up in the morning, he feels as if someone is trying to influence his will in some way: he is a person with a thousand pressures. The Americans live under a great strain ... and have great feelings of frustration. — Fidel Castro

Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality ... — James Anthony Froude

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave. — Ayn Rand

I hate you, Tommy! — James Dashner

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces. — Anis Mansour

This poem is the poem I'm writing because
we aren't speaking, and it is making my heart hurt
so bad that sometimes I can't make it up off the floor. — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Things you don't expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can't let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing. — Mikaela Shiffrin

Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple. — Kurt Vonnegut

There appears to be a certain difference among the ends: some ends are activities, others are certain works apart from the activities themselves, and in those cases in which there are certain ends apart from the actions, the works are naturally better than the activities. — Aristotle.

I began to think that my body was the most special thing in the world. Better than other bodies, even. Not because of the way it looked, but because of all the things it could do. All the different buttons there were to push. I wanted to find out what every single one of them was. I wanted to feel as good as possible. — Alicia Erian

When speculators have once entered Wall Street, they never leave it except in a pine box or a rosewood case, according to circumstances. — H.W. Brands

There always seem to be very rich people, no matter how poor the country, Thenoclon said. — Andrew Ashling

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor. — Erik Estrada

Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable. — Somaly Mam

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven. — William Blake