Olof Thunberg Quotes & Sayings

Affection as medicine is highly overrated ... a person who is as sick with depression as I most certainly was cannot possibly be rescued through the power of anyone's love. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day. — Tina Fey

You cannot innovate by copying. — Larry Ellison

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. — Jane Smiley

In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl. — Zoe Lister-Jones

I made an effort to develop a mind of winter. — Teju Cole

I cannot here give references and authorities for my several statements; and I must trust to the reader reposing some confidence in my accuracy. — Charles Darwin

"Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination." — George C. Marshall

Some of us are born sensitive. And if, on top of that, we are pulled about in different directions (both emotionally and physically), we might just end up becoming writers.
No, we don't become writers in schools of creative writing. We become writers before we learn to write. The rest is simply learning how to put it all together. — Ruskin Bond

Sitting at a crowded table with men who did not share a common language with you, listening to them talk and jape whilst understanding none of it, had quickly grown wearisome. Particularly since he always found himself wondering if the japes and laughter were directed at him. — George R R Martin

the tougher you are on yourself, the easier life will be on you. The quality of your life ultimately is shaped by the quality of your choices and decisions, ones that range from the career you choose to pursue to the books you read, the time that you wake up every morning and the thoughts you think during the hours of your days. When you consistently flex your willpower by making those choices that you know are the right ones (rather than the easy ones), you take back control of your life. — Robin S. Sharma

The real action is interior - all the growth that cannot be seen externally and to which we tend to have little access until we have experienced it ourselves. — Wendy Lustbader

Beloved, there is no way to measure the continuing influence of one godly mother. — Elizabeth George

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance. — Marion LeRoy Burton

Two men, two friends curled in bed. The next few minutes would decide everything. — Damon Suede