Quisling Quotes & Sayings

Be a Survivor, Not a Victim — J.L. Higgs

Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation. — Vidkun Quisling

A one-night stand that waited three years to tell me I had a son. I needed cash flow fast, It was time to get into the business. — Hank Williams III

The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts. — Sivananda

Myself, I couldn't help think of anything in the world better than stirring sharp white cheddar, smoked Gouda, creamy Havarti, Monterey Jack, and a touch of piquant Maytag blue cheese into a bubbling hot white sauce, stirring it to a thick honey consistency, and pouring it over al dente macaroni to toast to a crispy deep golden on top. — Beth Harbison

I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football. — Alan Curbishley

Just when we thought everything was going to be okay, we all fell apart. — Jenny Han

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Do not handicap yourself with the idea of revenge, for the trend of things will revenge your wrong not only upon the individuals responsible for your persecution, but on the society that has permitted this lawlessness. — Vidkun Quisling

Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using Escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter. just so a Party-spokesman might have labeled departure from the misery of the Fuhrer's or any other Reich and even criticism of it as treachery ... Not only do they confound the escape of the prisoner with the flight of the deserter; but they would seem to prefer the acquiescence of the "quisling" to the resistance of the patriot. — J.R.R. Tolkien

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy. — Jennifer Saunders

Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate. — Phil Ramone

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used. — Charles Stross

In the first two decades of this century, people and their political leaders, prodded by the quisling scientists, acted as though they could enjoy the benefits of modern science while rejecting any scientific findings that they found inconvenient to their ideology or their pocketbook. — James Lawrence Powell

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong. — Michael Phelps

All I have learned, I learned from books. — Abraham Lincoln

Asylums are crazy places, with crazy rules. If you're not mad when you arrive, you are when you leave. (That's if you ever leave.) I was lucky ... I got slung out; they couldn't afford to keep me any longer. — Stephen Richards

Grownups don't know how to believe — Frances Griffiths