Tordenskjold Quotes & Sayings

We can't always have our druthers. — Harper Lee

How many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned? — Bob Dylan

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. — Michael Polanyi

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to. — B.C. Forbes

While the others
those who wanted him to stay, to hold the line, to become the brink, but no farther
felt viable now with disgust for the shouters: they wanted the man to save himself, step backward into the arms of the cops instead of the sky. — Colum McCann

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. — David Lloyd George

Everywhere we went, every step we took, girls stopped talking and turned to stare. I'd never seen anything like it. But then, I don't suppose they'd ever seen anything like Reason.
We found two seats together in the middle of the room and sat down while a low murmur of noise filled the lecture hall. It sounded like several hundred girls breathing "squee" all at once. I figured I might as well get used to it. — Taylor Longford

White looked at him and said, "What are you thinking about?" He said, "The contradiction between rule one and the rest of it. We mustn't burn the Iranian. Which means we can't go anywhere near the messenger. We can't even stake out a location the messenger leads us to. Because we don't know the messenger exists. Not unless we got an inside whisper." "That's an impediment," Waterman said. "Not a contradiction. We'll find a way to work around it. They need that guy. — Lee Child

My church wasn't confined to the inside of a building. I carried it around with me everywhere I went. — Joni Mayhan