Karen Von Blixen Quotes & Sayings

Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos. — Mary Roach

Divinity exists in everyday life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic. — Ursula K. Le Guin

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them. — Karen Blixen

Don't be fool enough to think you can know a person's character after a few moments of observation. You can't. You have no idea where his life began or how his saga has unfolded thus far. Only his present state can you witness. To judge him at a glance is like reading one page in an open book, believing it's enough to confidently recite the story from beginning to end. True, one page may tell you much, but not nearly enough to accurately critique a book or evaluate a life. So, either become his friend and learn his entire story, or refrain from commenting on a tale you know nothing about. — Richelle E. Goodrich

When you two go out walking, do you like to have the people on the street say, 'Look at these nice twins'?" Immediately the little girl exclaimed, "No, I want them to say, 'Look at these two different people!'" This spontaneous exclamation, obviously revealing something very important to the little girl, cannot be explained by saying that the child wanted attention; for she would have gotten more attention if she had dressed as a twin. It shows, rather, her demand to be a person in her own right, to have personal identity - a need which was more important to her even than attention or prestige. — Rollo May

A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated. — Wendy Shalit

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper. — Arthur Machen

He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. — Edwin Edwards

I began playing Branson during the 1992 season and was a little amazed. There were about 30 celebrity theatres there and more are being added all the time. — Charley Pride

I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them. — William Cowper

That's not me. I wouldn't [take paternity leave.] Quite frankly, I would have said C-section before the season starts. I need to be at Opening Day. I'm sorry. — Boomer Esiason