Kvarnen Klippotek Quotes & Sayings

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives. — Emil Cioran

People say, 'Oh, you don't like China,' no, I love them. But their leaders are much smarter than our leaders, and we can't sustain ourself with that. — Donald Trump

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever! — Watchman Nee

He didn't even apologize as he sat up, staring down at her. Was
he angry? She guessed not when he began to speak to his erection.
"I know. I can't believe she left us like this either. Cruel wench,
isn't she?"
After the long, frightening, horrible day she had, this was not
remotely how she expected to end it. And, against her will, she
smiled.
"Look. Now she's laughing at us."
Desperately fighting a bout of laughter, she ordered, "Stop
talking to it."
He shrugged. "Well you won't talk to him ... and he's feeling
awfully lonely. And I think you hurt his feelings." Then he made it
bounce twice in agreement.
Talaith covered her face and sighed. What exactly did her
mother tell her the seven signs of madness were? Well, a dragon
talking to his own shaft had to be one of them. — G.A. Aiken

The depth of perspective and strength of character are what make thinking profound. — Pearl Zhu

You know you're in a bad patch when the most interesting part of the book you're reading is the acknowledgments page. — Sara Nelson

A near-fatal case of scurvy being the only reason I can imagine drinking something with grapefruit juice in it. — James S.A. Corey

Virtuoso? Are you serious? What kind of code name is that? Who's assigning code names these days? They should be shot. How can anyone feel threatened by someone named Virtuoso? — Elizabeth Bevarly

He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those matters from which there would be no exit nor easy way of retreat. This was an additional ground for my pleasure. For the controlled modesty of a mind that admits limitations is more beautiful than the things I was anxious to know about. — Augustine Of Hippo

Real success sometimes involves saying no to growth, expansion and gain. — Bryant McGill

Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. — Edith Wharton

I would wait ten years if you asked me, Mina." His eyes softened. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for you. A week is nothing in comparison. — Belle Aurora

No milk," I said.
"No milk," said my sister.
I watched my dad think about this. He looked like he was going to suggest that we have something for breakfast that you do not need milk for, like sausages, but then he looked like he remembered that, without milk, he couldn't have his tea. He had his "no tea" face.
"You poor children," he said. "I will walk down to the shop on the corner. I will get milk. — Neil Gaiman

How we think and feel about ourselves has an enormous impact on our ability to perform. A healthy self-image can tip the scales in our favor and equip us with the certitude and grace we need to push forward in victory, even through the most difficult situations. It gives us the mindset we need to prevail. — Kristen Clark

To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on consciousness. I think there are some neuroscientists who are trying to understand it, but I'm not aware that they've made any progress. — Stuart J. Russell