Summanden Quotes & Sayings

Nationalism as a thesis confuses (almost always deliberately) certain legitimate desires with illegitimate ones. People like to run their own affairs, and most people value the culture they were raised in, are proud of its achievements and wish it well; a significant degree of their sense of personal and group identity derives from it. All this is unexceptionable. But nationalists try to persuade their fellows that the existence of other groups and cultures somehow represents a challenge, and sometimes a threat, to what the natives of the home culture value. (From: Toward the Light of Liberty) — A.C. Grayling

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger. — Mary Matalin

I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case — Tomas Transtromer

Life, love, boys - it was all about balance.
~Anna Percy — Zoey Dean

However my mother had once said, 'When you go to art school, you'll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature'; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that. — Richard Williams

I do want to state that I have never kissed a girl nor have I touched a girl immorally or with sexual intent — Bill Gothard

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill. — Anthony Kiedis

If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an individual is for many, many, many, many, many, many lifetimes. — Frederick Lenz

I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased ... There is no hope for the hopeless. — Nadege Richards

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does. — Tom Vilsack

No thanky-you; you can't overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not the hate, and the violent but not the violence. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and war begets war. — Joss Sheldon

It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories. — Greg Norman

I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people. — Adam Driver