Stendahl Quotes & Sayings

Heels on or off?" she asked as she locked her legs behind his back.
"Don't care. — Savannah Stuart

Love does not seek equals; it creates them. — Krister Stendahl

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated. — William James

Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge. — Krister Stendahl

To write a book is to risk being shot at in public. — Stendhal

The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly. — Krister Stendahl

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry. — Krister Stendahl

If we must die, then let us die fighting a battle worthy of remembrance in the tales of our descendants! — Daniel Adorno

The oldest among Kashmiris often claim that their is nothing new about their condition, that they they have been slaves of foreign rulers since the sixteenth century, when the Moghul emperor Akbar annexed Kashmir and appointed a local governer to rule the state. In the chaos of post-Moghul India, the old empire rapidly disintegrating, Afghani and Sikh invaders plundered Kashmir at will. The peasantry was taxed and taxed into utter wretchedness; the cultural and intellectual life, which under indigenous rulers had produced some of the greatest poetry, music, and philosophy in the subcontinent, dried up. Barbaric rules were imposed in the early nineteenth century, a Sikh who killed a native of Kashmir was fined nothing more than two rupees. Victor Jacquemont, a botanist and friend of Stendahl's who came to the valley in 1831, thought that nowhere else in India were the masses as poor and denuded as they were in Kashmir. — Pankaj Mishra

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett. — Ray Bradbury

To every rule there is an exception - and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one! — Vera Nazarian

I like to think of The Falls as my own personal encyclopedia Greenaway-ensis. — Peter Greenaway

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention. — Gloria Steinem

How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense? Yes. Yes. Stendahl felt his hands grow cold with the senseless anger. — Ray Bradbury

But why, Mr. Stendahl, why all this? What obsessed you?" "Bureaucracy, Mr. Garrett. But I haven't time to explain. The government will discover soon enough." He nodded to the ape. "All right. Now." The ape killed Mr. Garrett. — Ray Bradbury

He'll be free to move on, to find someone with whom he'll be happy. I shake my head. Trouble is, he's already met that someone. He just doesn't remember. I do. — S.J. Harper

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. — Rodney Dangerfield

You must excel at the basic responsibilities of your job - and so you need to be certain what they are. Sure, — Kate White

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey