Nordfjordholman Quotes & Sayings

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself ... Anybody can have ideas
the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. — Mark Twain

What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative. — Susan Collins

And tomorrow
who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows
it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The amount of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had twelve. — Mark Hart

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power. — Camille Paglia

You're safer out in the open than you are crouching in the woodshed listening for footsteps and going crazy. — Eiji Yoshikawa

I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives. — Brad Pitt

I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. Pepper's' as your first album, because where do you go from there? — Taylor Hawkins

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either. — Brene Brown

Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry" — Frederick Lenz

That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God — John Updike

But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use. — Wendell Berry

As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree. — Jonathan Weiner