Lindstedt Groth Quotes & Sayings

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary. — Janna Malamud Smith

Practice makes perfect. — Benjamin Franklin

In war everybody is a prisoner. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The orchestra strikes up with 'Stockholm in My Heart', and everyone joins in. Hands sway in the air, mobile phone cameras are raised. A wonderful feeling of togetherness. It will be another fifteen minutes until, with meticulous premeditation, the whole thing is torn to shreds. Let us sing along for the time being. We have a long way to go before we return here. Only when the journey has softened us up, when we are ready to think the unthinkable, will we be permitted to come back. — John Ajvide Lindqvist

Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil. — Feisal Abdul Rauf

You have a tendency to just go with the flow and see where the wind blows, so I picked somewhere
decent for you to land. — J.M. Darhower

Yes, yes, many months ago. But your mother is someone who will always be in my life. She's not the kind of person who leaves your life when she's in it. Anyway, when someone you care about gets ill, all the other business...it just goes. — Zadie Smith