Suomalainen Klubi Quotes & Sayings

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. — John Stuart Mill

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can. — Eugene Delacroix

No story is more beautiful than the Gospel, even though it is a story full of pain and nails and hate and blood and sin and murder and betrayal and forsakenness and unimaginable agony and death. It is the story of what happens to the most beautiful thing, Perfect Love, when it enters our world: it comes to a Cross, to the crossroad between good and evil. All our most beautiful stories are like the Gospel: they are tragedies first, and then comedies; they are crosses and then crowns. They are crosses because they are conflicts between good and evil. That is the fundamental plot of every great story. To say "that story is beautiful" means "that story resembles the Gospel." If you are bored by the Gospel, that puts no black eye on the Gospel, but on you. Most likely, it means you have never listened to it. You must have heard it, but hearing is far from the same thing as listening ... — Peter Kreeft

She wanted to leave. I loved her too much to make her stay. — Alex Flinn

I'm not a psychopath, I'm just very creative. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son. — Melina Marchetta

The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The greater the number of selections, the less will be the average year-to-year variation in actual versus expected results. Also, the lower will be the expected results, assuming different choices have different expectations of performance. — Warren Buffett

Accept who you are. Don't leave me, Willow. We are all broken, that's how the light shines through. - Rhydian — Mira Monroe

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism. — Mary McCarthy

Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip? — Leonard Ravenhill