Allan Karlsson Quotes

#1. A good sense of humour combined with
self-distance always make the world a better place. And my hundred-year-old, Allan Karlsson, would probably add a bottle of vodka to complete the picture.

Jonas Jonasson

#2. You have to believe in yourself, that you're gonna succeed.

Cindy Margolis

#3. No man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best.

Seneca.

#4. In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I'll reply: Eden burns.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#5. I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

Moby

#6. He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty.

Margaret Way

#7. My mentality has always been, If I'm not the best at something, then I might as well be the best at something else. I realized that I wasn't going to be an Olympic volleyball player, but I knew I could model at that level.

Gigi Hadid

#8. Allan Emmanuelle Karlsson closed his eyes and felt perfectly convinced that he would now pass away for ever. It had been exciting, the entire journey, but nothing lasts for ever, except possibly general stupidity.

Jonas Jonasson

#9. Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

Elizabeth Fry

#10. Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

Ronald Reagan

#11. Milt was one of the men who discovered Bobby Orr. He once said that if a player comes along who is better then Bobby Orr, may the Good Lord let me be alive to see him because he is going to be one hell of a player to watch. Enough said.

Milt Schmidt

#12. But if you find yourself experiencing a desire to seek God, we have great news for you: God is already at work in you.

Henry T. Blackaby

#13. ONCE HE KNEW HOW to do things in Washington, he started doing them - with the same frenzied, driven, almost desperate energy he had displayed in Cotulla and Houston, the energy of a man fleeing from something dreadful.

Robert A. Caro

#14. I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.

Prince William