Mankell The Man Quotes & Sayings

First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something. — Damien Chazelle

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster. — Prince

Women can do it all but that doesn't mean they should have to. — Toni Sorenson

I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness. — David Mitchell

I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting. — Molly Sims

It's amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing. — Anne Sweeney

I don't feel as if I belong to an age group. — Quentin Blake

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot

I can hear. Hear them. It. Don't you hear? It was a struggle to speak, to form coherent thoughts. The call here was different; not the beehive sound of Craigh na Dun, but a hum like the vibration of the air following the striking of a great bell. I could feel it ringing in the long bones of my arms, echoing through pectoral girdle and spine. Jamie — Diana Gabaldon

Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth. — Henning Mankell

But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He wondered how long he could keep this up. — Henning Mankell

I'm a religious man," he said. "I don't believe in a particular
God, but even so one can have a faith, something beyond
the limits of rationality. Marxism has a large element of
built-in faith, although it claims to be a science and not
merely an ideology. This is my first visit to the West: until
now I have only been able to go to the Soviet Union or
Poland or the Baltic states. In your country I see an
abundance of material things. It seems to be unlimited. But
there's a difference between our countries that is also a
similarity. Both are poor. You see, poverty has different
faces. We lack the abundance that you have, and we don't
have the freedom of choice. In your country I detect a kind of poverty, which is that you do not need to fight for your
survival. For me the struggle has a religious dimension, and
I would not want to exchange that for your abundance. — Henning Mankell

A dead black man - nothing to bother about. — Henning Mankell

Fun is a normal part of being alive. Fun is taking time to celebrate being alive. — Melody Beattie

An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man. — Henning Mankell

They are our brothers, these freedom fighters ... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong. — Ronald Reagan