Reidar Jensen Quotes & Sayings

What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories? — S.J. Watson

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. — Paolo Bacigalupi

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity. — Colum McCann

Machines can pool their resources, intelligence, and memories. Two machines - or one million machines - can join together to become one and then become separate again. Multiple machines can do both at the same time: become one and separate simultaneously. Humans call this falling in love, but our biological ability to do this is fleeting and unreliable. — Ray Kurzweil

The charming king of Arilland had fallen in love at first sight. There was no question he would soon take this beautiful stranger as his bride.Fate had brought them together. Destiny. It was intoxicating. — Alethea Kontis

I know how hard it is to find the line between helping someone out, and helping someone in. I know that all suffer and die inside, again and again, from the addiction of one. And I know that sometimes, if love doesn't harden itself, love doesn't survive at all. — Gregory David Roberts

The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not? — Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm not sorry," Kami told him. "I wouldn't go back to a time before we were born, make it right, and lose you. I wouldn't be me without you. I wouldn't, I never want to... Lose you. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Tis not a tree in heaven higher than the tree of patience. — Christopher Paul Curtis

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. — Guillaume Apollinaire

Water may be extremely dirty, yet its nature remains clear. — Dalai Lama XIV

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now. — Julius Charles Hare

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character. — Janet Montgomery

He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo — Cormac McCarthy

Everybody's wondering, how can I arrange the daisies and dandelions of my life into a better bouquet? The answer is, you can't. Life is random. Life is absurd. Life is deadly. The bouquet arranges itself. And it doesn't always bloom or smell good. — Conrad Wesselhoeft