Herbjorg Quotes & Sayings

Our ancestors had displayed great strengths in space science. What people like Aryabhata had said centuries ago are being recognised by science today. We are a country which had these capabilities. We need to regain them. — Narendra Modi

The only prison we can be is prison of our mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Captain Tervitt had been a real captain, for many years, on the lake boats. Now he had a job as a special constable. He stopped the cars to let the children cross the street in front of the school and kept them from sledding down the side street in winter. He blew his whistle and held up one big hand, which looked like a clown's hand, in a white glove. He was still tall and straight and broad-shouldered, though old and white-haired. Cars would do what he said, and the children, too. — Alice Munro

Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts - meant to be broken. — John Harvey

A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend.
If men were perfectly virtuous, they wouldn't have friends. — Montesquieu

I like to control my own personal life. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

This woman was eighteen years old. With eyes as old as stones. — Herbjorg Wassmo

Am I wearing a wife-beater, Lizvetta?" He gaped down. "Oh, come on! — Kresley Cole

We are a very fortunate people, and we know it. That good fortune should not be taken for granted, and so we try to share and try to help. It is our way of saying that we welcome the friendship of those less fortunate, that we do not think ourselves entitled to that which we have, but rather, that we feel blessed beyond what we deserve. And so we share, and so we work, and in doing so, we become something larger than ourselves, and more fulfilled than one can become from idly enjoying good fortune! — Terry Brooks

Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few. — Ha-Joon Chang

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Happiness, after all, is found in the simplest of things. — Steve Maraboli

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie. — Tim Meadows

Greek mythology has always been my Achilles elbow. — Adrian McKinty

As you stop trying to forcibly manage the thoughts, beliefs and actions that arise from your mind and ask instead to be guided by a source greater than yourself, you will find a world of support showing up in surprising ways. — Debbie Ford

Humor is the most faithful supporting actor in a tragedy. So — Herbjorg Wassmo

Life is a bonfire where everyone else has brought marshmallows, and you - a stick. — Richelle E. Goodrich