Kullbergska Quotes & Sayings

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. — Edmund Waller

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition. — Mahatma Gandhi

In a condition of struggle and of failure we must be able to say "I must try harder" or "I must try differently." Both views are essential ... A change in either makes for a change in outcome.
When we say "I must try harder" we mean that the most relevant variable is something within us - intention, will, determination, "meaning it" .
When we say "I must try differently" we mean that the most relevant variable lies in the situation within which intention is being exerted, that we should look to the environment, to the ways it pushes and pulls at us, and in this study find the means to alter that interaction. — Allen Wheelis

Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, Brimming with silence and the stars; While earth, bathed in this holy light, Is seen without its scars. — Louis Untermeyer

People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time. — Jonah Peretti

Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return. — Alfred Capus

He began to get the feeling that dear Uncle Carol "was drifting about in an Edwardian summer — Robert Sellers

My life is to sing. — Julio Iglesias

I don't think as big and as creative as Joss. — Julie Benz

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule. — Arthur Frommer

The Safavids were either of Kurdish or Turkish origin. In the late thirteenth century, a member of the Safavid family founded a Sunni Sufi religious brotherhood in Azerbaijan, the Turkish-speaking region of northwestern Iran. The brotherhood attracted an ardent following among the Turkish pastoral tribes of the area, and by the late fifteenth century its influence had expanded into Anatolia and Syria. The heads of the brotherhood led the tribes in a series of expeditions against the Christians of the Caucasus, thereby acquiring temporal power as well as enhancing their reputations as servants of Islam. Their Turkish followers were known as Qizilbash, the Redheaded Ones, after the red headgear they wore to identify themselves as supporters of the Safavid brotherhood. — William L. Cleveland

But it is always dreadful when the pictures in front of one's eyes become meaningless and the real word is there instead and seems meaningless, too. — Dodie Smith

John Kenneth Galbraith said: Faced with the choice of changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. — Eliezer Yudkowsky