Oddvar Odland Quotes & Sayings

Think, for example, has a higher suicide rate: countries whose citizens declare themselves to be very happy, such as Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands, and Canada? or countries like Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, whose citizens describe themselves as not very happy at all? Answer: the so-called happy countries. It's the same phenomenon as in the Military Police and the Air Corps. If you are depressed in a place where most people are pretty unhappy, you compare yourself to those around you and you don't feel all that bad. But can you imagine how difficult it must be to be depressed in a country where everyone else has a big smile on their face?2 Caroline Sacks's decision to evaluate herself, then, by looking around her organic chemistry classroom was not some strange and irrational behavior. It is what human beings do. We compare ourselves to those in the same situation as ourselves, which means that students in an elite school - except, perhaps, — Malcolm Gladwell

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing. — Billy Bob Thornton

Moving the body resolves nothing- sadness, after all travels in the mind. — Shahrukh Husain

Country living - and definitely living in the country with a lot of animals - isn't peaceful. It's full of blood and guts and murder and rivalry and treachery and chaos, in a lovely green pitiless world. — Susan Orlean

The best jokes are often only understood by one other person. — Barry Humphries

I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman. — Carolina Herrera

The sad vicissitude of things. — Laurence Sterne

It's as if they've planned out my life for me and I'm expected to live it for them. I hate it. So I don't tell anyone much. It's easier that way." ~Dani O'Meara from the forthcoming amateur sleuth mystery, Dangerous Days for Dani — Claire A. Murray

Chloe took a sip of her coffee. Strong as faith, sweet as love, black as sin. — Anne Stuart