Nordengen Quotes & Sayings

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. — Anatole France

Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice. — William Howard Taft

My kitty wishes to engulf you within her darkened delta of destruction. — Matt Fraction

The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since. — Robert Dallek

Searching represents the achievement of the goal of searching.
Finding represents the achievement of the goal of finding. — Alan Cohen

glass knives were about as useful as nipples on a knight's breastplate, — George R R Martin

The hardest part about photography is getting out of bed. — Ken Duncan

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone. — Jason Chaffetz

But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt. — Condoleezza Rice

Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out into the open air and doing it, actually doing it, something solid and concrete and unconceptualisable. — James Kelman

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. — Ernest Hemingway,

Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. The invention of the printing press is an excellent example. Printing fostered the modern idea of individuality but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and social integration. — Neil Postman