Hovedsteder Quotes & Sayings

The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us. — E. O. Wilson

Don't cry my son
Don't cry, because life is a redeemed fight
Life is a fight that will demean the weak person
And will always exalt the strong ones — Goncalves Dias

Science is uncertain. — Richard P. Feynman

It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love. — Pope Benedict XVI

Work on nothing less than epic scale — Francis Ford Coppola

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like. — Jamie Foxx

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar. — Sue Grafton

Neither Rose nor Charles liked to talk much of their adventures with the trolls, but some of the so-called "softskins" whom they had brought out of Niflheim, as well as the crew of the ship Soren had hired to go north to find Rose, must have spread the story, because for many years afterward, there were tales of a race of trolls living on top of the world.
Only Rose and her white bear know the whole truth of it. — Edith Pattou

Goshawks are nervous because they live life ten times faster than we do, and they react to stimuli literally without thinking. — Helen Macdonald

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man. — Henry Ward Beecher

A poetic list is a talent in itself. You can write a list of things, and it can be boring. — Pattiann Rogers