Icelandic Poetry Quotes & Sayings

Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well. — Brett Hull

In May, she wrote to tell me that she was coming to New york or a week in June. She was going to stay with me, but her letters made it clear that the visit didnt mean a resumption for our old life. As the day approached, my agitation mounted. By the morning of her arrival, it had reached a pitch that felt something like an inner scream.The very thought that I would soon see Erica again didnt excite me as much as wound me. As I wandered around the loft trying to calm myself, I realized that I was holding my chest like a man who had just been stabbed. After sitting down, I tried to untangled that feeling of injury but couldnt do it - not fully. — Siri Hustvedt

The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that-however bloody-can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave. — Lysander Spooner

Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people. — Steven Magee

I don't like to dwell on the past. — Tina Turner

The holidays are only holy if we make them so. — Marianne Williamson

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something. — Orison Swett Marden

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next. — Mary Doria Russell

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity. — Pierre Omidyar

We thought it was drops
of dew and kissed
cold tears from the crossgrass. — Jonas Hallgrimsson

The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers in a harpsichord when the notes are struck. Perhaps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to his lips. If so, it never reached them. — Charles Dickens

You want I should drive twenty miles because I got roots? — John Steinbeck

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument. — Sara Sheridan

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life. — Aiden Wilson Tozer