Irgens Jensen Quotes & Sayings

When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched. I am well aware that when someone needing food knocks at your door, you always find a way of sharing food; as the proverb says, one can always 'add more water to the beans'! Is it possible to add more water to the beans? ... Always? ... And you do so with love, demonstrating that true riches consist not in materials things, but in the heart! — Pope Francis

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on. — Helene Hanff

Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary: For the first time in a decade, it is the Democratic candidates, not the Republican ones, who are fodder for late-night comics. That the Democrats are committing gaffes and causing scandals at a higher rate than Republicans not only may be decisive in the battle for the Senate. It could signal a change in our politics at large. — Matthew Continetti

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It is here that Spinoza is in the right - a life dominated by a single passion is a narrow life, incompatible with every kind of wisdom. — Bertrand Russell

No matter what happened, there was always one thing Isla could rely on: the sheer arrogance of male wolves. That, and their overriding assumption all females found them irresistible and were desperate to get them in the sack. Mostly she was desperate to get them in the sack, if only to stop their whining, but she didn't think a sack six feet under was precisely what they meant. — Mina Carter

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then ... we conclude that ... the stubborn sectaries must be put to death. — Martin Luther

In retrospect, I am very nearly as sharp as I pretend to be. — Lyndsay Faye

We are not hypocrites in our sleep. — William Hazlitt

Garth on making his stories feel real "Things like armour, clothes and other small details are very important in building up the reality of the story... I do spend quite a lot of time on things like clothing, armour, weapons and try and make them feel real. — Garth Nix