Malterud 2001 Quotes & Sayings

I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world, he's sort of God. — Evan Thomas

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man. — Samuel Roth

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game. — Gelett Burgess

I am Chun the Unavoidable. Tonight, O Lith, tonight it is two long bright threads for you. — Jack Vance

Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light. — Henry David Thoreau

It's fascinating to watch a man of his stature be so domesticated. It's downright erotic. — T.C. Matson

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once. — Arthur Schopenhauer

By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. — Barbara Demick

With any spiritual teaching, we are working with rounded-off truths, because we cannot work directly with the whole truth - it's too big. — Shepherd Hoodwin

What I hate is that not many people admit to having a big ego, but you have to - and there's nothing wrong with it. — Marina And The Diamonds

She had been tied to an incubus, the memory of a love that had been rejected and had had nowhere to go; she had been locked into a dead relationship and now the last dried skin of it had fallen away, like the scab on a wound, and she was free. — Alexander McCall Smith

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract. — Peter Hall

Never leave a guy alive who'd like to see you dead. — Richard Stark

To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti