Thorhallur Halldorsson Quotes & Sayings

what we think of when we envision the human past is partly a myth that tells more about where we think we're going wrong with our own lives today than anything that happened thousands and thousands of years ago. — Brenna Hassett

We phone each other because it's only in these long-distance calls, this groping for each other along cables of buried copper, cluttered relays, the whirling contact points of clogged selector switches, only in this probing the silence and waiting for an echo that one prolongs that first call from afar, that cry that went up when the first great crack of the continental drift yawned beneath the feet of a human couple, when the depths of the ocean opened up to separate them, while, torn precipitously apart, one on one bank and one on the other, the couple strove with their cries to stretch out a bridge of sound that might keep them together yet, cries that grew ever fainter until the roar of the waves overwhelmed all hope. — Italo Calvino

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space. — Greg Lynn

Children are the only ones who don't want anything of me. — Michael Jackson

History is where tensions were. — Howard Nemerov

From whom but the Devil did this advice come under which you are acting? Those who are urging you to repeat your former wrongdoings against an innocent person are seeking in this not your honour but their own convenience. They are clearly the enemies of your crown and the disturbers of your realm. — Alison Weir

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while. — Margaret Murray

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in. — Joe Manchin

Happy Endings are profitable. People can get misery for free. — Xavier Neal

Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks. — Deepak Chopra

Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God's hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to grasp the significance of 'all is His'. and you will immediately feel free from all burdens. What will be the result of your surrender to Him? None will seem alien, all will be your very own Self. — Anandamayi Ma

Men did not like women to weep. It reminded them of their own failings. — Kameron Hurley