Swenson Quotes & Sayings

Poetry can magnify experience. — May Swenson

How different our prayer life would be if we submitted our will to God's. Imagine if we asked only for things to benefit His kingdom. — Amber Albee Swenson

The fastest growing political party is no party. — Chuck Todd

Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one. — Sandy Swenson

We both sat there mute, as if we were in a no-talking competition and serious about winning. — Lee Child

There is, of course, no way of knowing for certain. There is no way to know what they felt, those millions who were given no chance at survival. I can only speculate. And even I, a Jew - yes, I am a Jew, Dr. Swenson, and my entire family was murdered by the Nazis - even I can only imagine a pale facsimile of what it must have been like. But I do know that there is no justification. No possible rationalization for what the Nazis did, for what civilian Germans permitted and encouraged to happen. — Jenna Blum

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Don't ask why. Just accept it. — Cass Swenson

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. — Peter Bogdanovich

We're in a little funk. I don't think anybody's worried about our lead. — Mark Buehrle

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government. — Johann Lamont

Our belief systems are the glasses through which we each view the world and anticipate what is likely to unfold. Our behavior is always loyal with our beliefs. — Margo Adair

Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and "Report from the Surface" by Anthony McCann), sheep ("Snow Line" by John Berryman) or a yak ("The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia" by Oni Buchanan). — Matthea Harvey

Marina Singh: "You went to Radcliffe."
Annick Swenson: "I didn't love it. — Ann Patchett

We need to reject evil and embrace our faith-whatever it may be. We need to remind ourselves about how things used to be-how it should be. Only by informing others, can we defeat this corrupt system of organized chaos. Remember, everything that is happening now was planned long ago, and it is all happening for a specific purpose. The insane policies that are being made have never been about keeping us safe from terrorists; nor have they been about preserving freedom of speech, or just plain freedom. One thing is for certain: it is not about God, nor is it about Grandma or "apple pie". It is all about money and power and control-plain and simple. — Cass Swenson

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death. — Heinrich Heine

Body my house
my horse my hound
what will I do
when you are fallen — May Swenson

The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then. — May Swenson

School and I never seemed to walk hand in hand. — Dean Winters

People in the US think they are "free" because they always hear that they are, even if all evidence shows it is no longer true. — Cass Swenson

Our guests have described a vast city spanning many stars, — Daniel P. Swenson

Love is ... the bite into bread again. — May Swenson

It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn! — Ernest Cline

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.
Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?
Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things. — Andy Warhol

if you already have genes predisposed to an autoimmune disease, and you eat grains and legumes, you're putting your hand on a trigger, and it's only a matter of time before you pull it and allow the damaged genes to rule. — Nicole Swenson

As for myself, I'd rather not say very much. When I breathe, the air feels good in my chest. And when I think of the mirrored room, as of course I still do, I understand now that it's empty, filled with chimeras like Charlotte Swenson - the hard, beautiful seashells left behind long after the living creatures within have struggled free and swum away. Or died. Life can't be sustained under the pressure of so many eyes. Even as we try to reveal the mystery of ourselves, to catch it unawares, expose its pulse and flinch and peristalsis, the truth has slipped away, burrowed further inside a dark, coiled privacy that replenishes itself like blood. It cannot be seen, much as one might wish to show it. It dies the instant it is touched by light. — Jennifer Egan

We have more 'things per person' than any other nation in history. Closets are full, storage space is used up, and cars can't fit into garages. Having first imprisoned us with debt. Possessions then take over our houses and occupy our time. This begins to sound like an invasion. Everything I own owns me. Why would I want more? — Richard A. Swenson

Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place. — May Swenson

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop. — Mona Simpson

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die. — Mary Matalin

I have no beliefs of a religious kind. — Helen Clark

Hannah! You've simply got to stop finding bodies. I swear you attract them like a magnet. If you're not careful, everyone's going to get the wrong impression of you." - Delores Swenson — Joanne Fluke

Margin," Swenson says, "is the space between our load and our limits. — Kevin DeYoung

The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem. — May Swenson

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law. — John Grisham

Love came bearing love
A chalice of light
We bathed in love and drank it
Then our flesh
Seemed like the leaves
Enameled bright forever. — May Swenson

...the ones that bark the most are always the ones who need the most love but are too afraid. — Dannika Dark