Torbjorn Quotes & Sayings

Time is the subtle thief of youth. — John Milton

The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves. — Torbjorn Tannsjo

I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just ... old. — D. L. Hughley

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces? — Boris Pasternak

The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part of the world, will suffer the same fate as the Swedish monarchy did before. The democracy is beeing emptied of all power political content at the same time as the forms remain, treated with reverence and preservasion. — Torbjorn Tannsjo

Try to spend at least 2 or 3 days every month in an ashram. Just breathing the pure air there will purify and strengthen our bodies and minds. Like recharging the batteries, even after returning home we will be able to continue our meditation and japa. — Mata Amritanandamayi

The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of security
somehow it filled a part of her as nothing else had. — Connie Brockway

In poetry we pare down our thoughts into their most graceful shapes, like minimalist sculptures. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

But the lies she told were woven into the fabric of her being, her life; so that to live with her and love her was to become slowly enmeshed by them, to wrestle her for the truth, to struggle to maintain foothold on reality. — Robert Galbraith

We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race - we are even developing an exact ethic for extra-human relations. But all moral problems can be illustrated by one misquotation: 'Greater love hath no man than a mother cat dying to defend her kittens.' Once you understand the problem facing that cat and how she solved it, you will then be ready to examine yourself and learn how high up the moral ladder you are capable of climbing. — Robert A. Heinlein

One cannot escape the impression that the intellectual's most fundamental incompatibility is with the masses. He has managed to thrive in social orders dominated by kings, nobles, priests, and merchants, but not in societies suffused with the tastes and values of the masses. — Eric Hoffer

After the train started he had stood on the rear platform and watched the station and the water tower grow smaller and smaller and the rails crossed by the ties narrowed toward a point where the station and the water tower stood now minute and tiny in the steady clicking that was taking him away. — Ernest Hemingway,

The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the most rewarding fashion, and the great minds of today increasingly turn to where the money is - which means military matters. — Paul Feyerabend

Torbjorn (Hansen, Magnus Carlsen's first teacher) himself went from 2104 to 2204 in rating during the year he trained with Magnus. This reflects the experience I have had. One learns nearly as much from teaching others. — Simen Agdestein

Be Hard On a Woman Only When Making Love to Her — Sharon Esther Lampert

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world. — Sydney Brenner

The desire to live within our comfort zone and to be in control all the time is a denier of a fulfilling life that excites. Let go... — Assegid Habtewold