Lycklig Quotes & Sayings

I assigned myself the role of Lot's wife, because her behavior seemed the most human, the most sinful, and therefore closest to mine. Consumed by curiosity, I was drawn to the magnificent, horrible sight of fire and disaster as houses collapsed and towers folded like dominoes amidst human wailing that rose to the sky. My curiosity, brought to an explosive point by the divine warning, was suddenly transformed into my sole trait, overwhelming reason and the feeling of fear, turning me into a weakling of a woman, unable to resist my inquisitiveness, and I would turn around abruptly with my whole body as if rotated by the centrifugal force of my curiosity, which had passed through me like a sword. — Danilo Kis

My hope and prayer for all who read this book is a reformation - that an army of African-American men will make their way back into the church, back into the leadership of the church, back into leading a change in the church to be and do what it is called to be and do, so that we may have power to do good for our people, and people all over the world, in a way that no government or service organization has been or will be able to do, and that no one will be able to take away. — Eric Redmond

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog. — Sufjan Stevens

You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept ... You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite. — Ali Mazrui

To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into. — Kaley Cuoco

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it - just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her. — Alain De Botton

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love. — J.M. Coetzee

Okay, then, what was he like? Just give me something to go on so that I have a shot at him!'
'A shot at him? Are you on an elk hunt? — Sara Zarr

Such sober certainty of waking bliss. — John Milton

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. — Kenneth Koch

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned. — Noam Chomsky

I enjoy talking to fans. — Douglas Wilson

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that? — Kim Young-ha