Upsales Nordic Quotes & Sayings

Pain was weakness leaving the body. — Eliza Lentzski

They say sound is vibration and it got my mind shaking/ Can you feel it vibrating? I call it Vibe Ratings — Capital STEEZ

It is my fervent goal and hope ... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth. — Ronald Reagan

Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say. — Gordon Lightfoot

To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word. — Richard P. Feynman

Even President Reagan couldn't understand him. During an early briefing Casey delivered to the national security cabinet, Reagan slipped Vice President Bush a note: "Did you understand a word he said?" Reagan later told William F. Buckley, "My problem with Bill was that I didn't understand him at meetings. Now, you can ask a person to repeat himself once. You can ask him twice. But you can't ask him a third time. You start to sound rude. So I'd just nod my head, but I didn't know what he was actually saying."
Such was the dialogue for six years between the president and his intelligence chief in a nuclear-armed nation running secret wars on four continents. — Steve Coll

Your sexuality is the engine of your humanness. Freed of your self, it is an engine of movement. It isn't there to move your experience, but to move your being into your experience, bringing your being into the physicality of your self. — John De Ruiter

Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being. — Lynn Margulis

And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible. — Bryan Adams

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. — Robert Henri

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend. — Kevin Eubanks

A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame. — Bodhidharma

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed. — G.K. Chesterton

It might be that women who have been
nurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taught
to have too much respect — Sherwood Anderson