Torkelssons Quotes & Sayings

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you. — George Bernard Shaw

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it. — Randall Terry

God does not read. — Emil M. Cioran

So, what do you do when you're too big, in a world where bigness is cast not only as aesthetically objectionable, but also as a moral failing? You fold yourself up like origami, you make yourself smaller in other ways, you take up less space with your personality, since you can't with your body. You diet. You starve, you run till you taste blood in your throat, you count out your almonds, you try to buy back your humanity with pounds of flesh. — Lindy West

And nature must obey necessity. — William Shakespeare

Persistence is always rewarded with success. — Steven Redhead

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less. — Matt Gonzalez

This area is off limits to our kind," Grom says. "Humans have seen us here, and their stories will spread to more humans. Some will believe them, some will not. Those that do might come to investigate. We will not give them anything to find here."
His command is met with solemn nods. "You must also realize," he continues, "that it is only a matter of time now before this happens again. Maybe not in our generation, maybe not in the next. But the time is coming when humans will find us. We all must think about what this means for us individually, but most importantly, for our kind. Go home now to your families. Tell them what has happened. Talk with them about what might. — Anna Banks

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s. — Andy Warhol

She shrugged. "All right. Are you going to come back? Do you want any soup?"
"No," said Jace.
"Do you think Hodge will want any soup?
"No one wants any soup."
"I want some soup," Simon said.
"No, you don't," said Jace. "You just want to sleep with Isabelle."
Simon was appalled. "That is not true."
"How flattering," Isabelle murmured into the soup, but she was smirking. — Cassandra Clare

I mean, words can't be good enough for a lot of things. But, you know, I guess we have to try. — Ava Dellaira

You can't manufacture the feeling of being in a small crowd and connecting on every single level to the very last person in the very last row in the back. — Gary LeVox

Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters. — Rollo May

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright. — Max Beckmann