Rockstrom Johan Quotes & Sayings

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. — W. Somerset Maugham

People even said I was a racist because I shot black bank robbers at the beginning of Dirty Harry. So, first I'm labeled right-wing. Then I'm a racist. Now it's macho or male chauvinism. It's a whole number nowadays to make people feel guilty on different levels. It doesn't bother me because I know where the fuck I am on the planet and I don't give a shit. — Clint Eastwood

The music acted as a marinade in my weary spirit. — Pat Conroy

Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it. — Aimee Bender

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. — James Whitcomb Riley

We take it for granted, the world that we love - and we're destroying it so quickly. The light of dawn on the prairie. The silvery flash of fish in a stream. The cry of a hawk over a forest. Everybody has their own idea of the beautiful, and we'll surely miss it when it's gone. — Johan Rockstrom

Winner have lost something but loser have nothing to lose. — Muhammad Usman

There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back. — Billy Martin

It often takes a tragedy to open our hearts, minds, and wills to the truth of God's Word. — Billy Graham

We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss. — Johan Rockstrom

Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era. — Johan Rockstrom

Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial. — Gautama Buddha

I believe in nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of the imagination. - JOHN KEATS — Jandy Nelson

My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before. — Ani DiFranco

I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved. — Alain Prost

Around and then leave through the front door, never looking back. I walk — AnnaLisa Grant

Am I entitled to one mistake, am I after 35 years? — Donald Sterling

...we have chosen to speak of spirituality ultimately as the way in which we live out our response to God. Unless we find this personal, transformational meaning in its fullest sense, the struggle for wholeness will remain unresolved. As Augustine put it in the first paragraph of his Confessions, 'God created us for a relationship with him and our hearts are restless until we find our rest in God. — Janet O. Hagberg