Solstad House Quotes & Sayings

People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

It's not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it. — Jim Butcher

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world. — Fennel Hudson

When one sees his own faults, he will not have the time to see the others' faults. — Dada Bhagwan

The recognition factor is so much higher when I'm a redhead, so when I'm a blonde I can pass under the radar a lot more easily. — Cynthia Nixon

Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I'm not kidding. I'm telling you what I've found. Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught. This was what I, even as a young man, sometimes suspected, what has driven me away from the teachers. — Hermann Hesse

Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise. — Laurie Nadel

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably? — Henry David Thoreau

The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London. — Charles Clarke

Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood. — Mark Noble

Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands. — Jim Crace