Nijanse Smedje Quotes & Sayings

What's a Sun-Dial in the shade? — Benjamin Franklin

You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not. — Roland Smith

I thought a wolf's mindset was just to take?"
"I am not just looking at you through the eyes of a wolf, Cora. I am looking at you through the eyes of your mate. It is the only thing that has allowed me to hold back with you. The pull between us is intense. — Franca Storm

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. — Frank Barron

I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that. — Richard Dawkins

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. — Gerald M. Loeb

As you sift through this very solid-looking body, you have to go only so far before you end up with a handful of nothing. — Deepak Chopra

Magnificent Monday, let's go! — LaNina King

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies. — Susie Orbach

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying — Niccolo Machiavelli

Susan was a tough-minded romantic. She wanted to fall in love with a book. She always had reasons for her devotions, as an astute reader would, but she was, to her credit, probably the most emotional one among us. Susan could fall in love with a book in more or less the way one falls in love with a person. Yes, you can provide, if asked, a list of your loved one's lovable qualities: he's kind and funny and smart and generous and he knows the names of trees.
But he's also more than amalgamation of qualities. You love him, the entirety of him, which can't be wholly explained by even the most exhaustive explication of his virtues. And you love him no less for his failings. O.K., he's bad with money, he can be moody sometimes, and he snores. His marvels so outshine the little complaints as to render them ridiculous. — Michael Cunningham

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much. — Baltasar Gracian

Each sunrise is a precious jewel ... for it may never be followed by its sunset. — Robert A. Heinlein

Society, and proceeded to introduce a series of sweeping social, economic, and political reforms, including — Leo Tolstoy