Lagerkvist Par Quotes & Sayings

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? — Natalie Clifford Barney

Don't quit when you encounter an obstacle. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it. — Par Lagerkvist

And they are deformed though it does not show on the outside. I live only my dwarf life. I never go around tall and smooth-featured. I am ever myself, always the same, I live one life alone. I have no other being inside me. And I recognize everything within me, nothing ever comes up from my inner depths, nothing there is shrouded in mystery. Therefore I do not fear the things which frighten them, the incoherent, the unknown, the mysterious. Such things do not exist for me. There is nothing "different" about me. — Par Lagerkvist

Red pepper, when eaten early in the day, decreases food intake later in the day. — Michael F. Roizen

If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God. — Yasmin Mogahed

We need to be asking for the vote in the most powerful way possible, which is to have people asking for the vote who are comfortable and look like and sound like the people that we're asking for the vote from. — Karl Rove

-No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been there, nothing else is anything either. — Par Lagerkvist

And then the third night was after we broke up, which was worth a million matches but instead just took all I had. That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it. Up in smoke I wanted everything, up in smoke I wanted you, although in a movie that wouldn't work, even, too many effects, too showy for how tiny and bad I felt. Cut that fire from the film, no matter how much I watch it in dailies. But I want it anyway, Ed, I want what can't possibly happen, and that is why we broke up. — Daniel Handler

The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause budget deficits to soar. The U.S. dollar, which has become a mere corollary of government finance, is likely to survive the soaring deficits. — Hans F. Sennholz

Now, when any vicious simpleton excites my disgust by his paltry ribaldry ... — Charlotte Bronte

But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning
the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life
a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them. — Jed Rubenfeld

Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness. — Par Lagerkvist

When you're building a business, you're either all in, or you're not. — Barbara Corcoran

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time. — Ellen Kushner