Tormod Quotes & Sayings

For twenty-seven years I was told and believed it to be true, that if you really liked someone, you'd wish her/him to 'stay the way s/he is'.

Today I know that I was not wrong, but my view was limited. If I really like someone today, I don't want them to merely stay that way, I want them to grow, to discover their potential, and am excited to see who they choose to become. — Akilnathan Logeswaran

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. — George Reisman

You can tell a lot about a country by observing how much better they treat themselves than foreigners at the point of entry. — Michael Lewis

I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd. — Jon Foreman

I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week. — Nate Silver

Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading. — Jaako J. Wallenius

The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Internal and external action are inseparable: imagination, interpretation, and will are internal processes in external action. — Lev S. Vygotsky

Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up. — Jerry Seinfeld

My story and my stories are all, in one or another, the same, tales of solitude and the grand pursuit of connection, of success and the inevitability of defeat. — Michael Chabon

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game. — Alan Lewis

It can be really painful to have to face how fucked up shit is and how scared people are ... of being alive. Scared of things that are amazing. Scared of things that aren't like television or aren't dead. A lot of people can't deal with three-dimensional human beings, they only know how to deal with other products - they see themselves as other products. When the world only treats you like a dot on a marketing scheme, you can learn to treat yourself and other people like that. — Kathleen Hanna