Lounas Ekberg Quotes & Sayings

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV. — Bong Joon-ho

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace. — Bertrand Russell

Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances. — Gautama Buddha

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they aeons before man did, to spend long centuries on earth. Awaiting their devourer's birth? Those ill-timed chattels, sent from heaven, were, sure, the maddest gift e'er given - 'sent' for man's use (can man believe it?) when there was no man to receive it! — Henry Stephens Salt

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility. — Johannes Tauler

I learned in English class about surrealists. It was the first time I wanted to throw myself up so I could be marked present. Surrealism turns the whole world upside down. — A.S. King

The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

That myth
that image of the madonna-mother
has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers. It has kept us from hearing their voices when they try to tell us their aspirations ... kept us from believing that they share with men the desire for achievement, mastery, competence
the desire to do something for themselves. — Lillian B. Rubin

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. — Thomas Mann

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete. — Okakura Kakuzo

God created you to trust him and love others. When you are not trusting or not loving, you are disconnected from your purpose, and hopelessness will thrive. — Edward T. Welch

The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there
there you could look at a thing monstrous, beautiful, and free. — Joseph Conrad

I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. — Maya Angelou