Selskabslege Quotes & Sayings

I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day. — Susan Anton

Nor is there any valid reason to reject the idea of God or the notion of the sacred just because of the sickly expression Christianity has given to them, any more than it is necessary to break with aristocratic principles on the pretext that they have been caricatured by the bourgeoisie. — Alain De Benoist

We Greeks are the blacks of Europe. — Yanis Varoufakis

Don't ask to borrow unless you intend to repay them. — Mark Romagna

The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity. — Pope Leo XIII

Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment. — Jonathan Demme

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you — Bella Pollen

Sometimes I want to be human for you. — Sarah Rees Brennan

And how simple, how sublimely familiar was the tale her body told. — Kurt Vonnegut

What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself. — Kadir Nelson

If the Savior could die for the world, can't we work for it? — Dwight L. Moody

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton. — Michael Moore

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor. — Peter Facinelli

[Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it. — Rick Santorum

Somewhere a clock ticked. Quite fast. Too fast, it seemed to me, to be counting seconds. But then this was an American building, and maybe Americans had decided that seconds were just too goddamned slow, and how's about a clock that can do a minute in twenty seconds? That way, we get more goddamned hours in a goddamned day than these faggot limeys. — Hugh Laurie