Solan Gundersen Quotes & Sayings

How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans. — David Mitchell

Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers.
Give and spend,
and be sure that God will send;
for only in giving and spending
do you fulfill the object of His sending. — Bill Vaughan

Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms. — Sam Ewing

People. You're not crazy if there really are robot insects listening to every word you say."

Someone said, "I fucking told you — Warren Ellis

Do you think you were locked in a cupboard as a child? Cecilia had asked him once (she wouldn't have put it past his mother), but he said he was pretty sure he wasn't. — Liane Moriarty

He was a good enough sort of cretur, and hadn't no harm in him, and was just a genius, as the papers said, which wasn't his fault. — Mark Twain

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. — Bill Watterson

But all of us-at home, at war, wherever we may be-are within the reach of God's love and power. We all can pray. We all should pray. We should ask the fulfillment of God's will. — Harry S. Truman

Living cells must have food in the form of sugar, they must breathe, and they must grow, at least a little. But without leaves-and therefore without photosynthesis-that's impossible. No being on the planet can maintain a centuries-long fast, not even the remains of a tree, and certainly not a stump that has had to survive on its own. It was clear that something else was happening with this stump. It must be getting assistance from neighboring trees, specifically from their roots. Scientists investigating similar situations have discovered that assistance may either be delivered remotely by fungal networks around the root tips-which facilitate nutrient exchange between trees-or the roots themselves may be interconnected. In the case of the stump I had stumbled upon, I couldn't find out what was going on, because I didn't want to injure the old stump by digging around it, but one thing was clear: the surrounding beeches were pumping sugar to the stump to keep it alive. — Peter Wohlleben

I'm not Sisyphus trying to restrain death. Illyria is a soldier. If it's her time, it's her time. I'm not at war with Atropos. It's her will to take us whenever she likes. My only goal is to die with dignity. (Stryker) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A man will only do what you allow him to do, — Kennedi Dior

How did you do it? How did you manage to remain unmangled?"
"By holding on to just one rule."
"Which?"
"To place nothing-nothing-above the verdict of my own mind. — Ayn Rand

I'm a Harry Truman, JFK, Scoop Jackson and Bill Clinton Democrat. — Joe Lieberman

But maybe she'd always been this fucking adorable and I'd just been the jackass who never bothered to notice. — Sarah Darlington