Sandhamn Quotes & Sayings

History has to live with what was here,
clutching and close to fumbling all we had -
it is so dull and gruesome how we die,
unlike writing, life never finishes. — Robert Lowell

I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes. — Bo Burnham

There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason. — Luis Suarez

Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people? — Richard Dawkins

Productivity comes from engagement, not tight control; when we are motivated, we don't need to tightly control ourselves (or others). — Matt Perman

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved. — Dalai Lama

He could not have loved Virginia Gamely more, and he wondered if what he assumed lay at such great distance were present in this very city -or even in Virginia herself, if the future were to be fair and imaginative enough to take refuge in a single soul. — Mark Helprin

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them. — Michel De Montaigne

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle. — Joan D. Vinge

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism. — Daniel Okrent

I know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it's kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it's hugely important. — Anna Faris