Top 100 Andersen's Quotes

#1. Responsible: (1) Liable to be held to account for discharging one's duty; (2) Able to make moral or rational decisions on one's own and therefore answerable for one's behavior; (3) Able to be trusted or depended upon; reliable.

Erika Andersen

#2. Well, that's not easy to answer when the question is so stupidly put ...

Hans Christian Andersen

#3. When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.

Hans Christian Andersen

#4. Shalvis makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me sigh with pure pleasure.

Susan Andersen

#5. At his next visit he fancied he must have got into a narrow needlecase, full of sharp needles: "Oh," thought he, "this must be the heart of an old maid;" but such was not the fact;

Hans Christian Andersen

#6. "Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?"
"No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of."
"Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.

Hans Christian Andersen

#7. Gravitation cant be held responsible for people falling in love.

Karsten Andersen

#8. A well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way. Now bend your neck, and say 'quack.'" The

Hans Christian Andersen

#9. That secret entrance deep between her thighs clenched like the mouth of a drawstring purse.

Susan Andersen

#10. I'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York City, and I stood out amongst my friends in my community. I was very blond-haired, white, and 'Lemonhead' was the name that they gave me.

Lemon Andersen

#11. No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit of his office.

Hans Christian Andersen

#12. But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said.

Hans Christian Andersen

#13. he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness. In

Hans Christian Andersen

#14. Superbe! Charmant! exclaimed the ladies; for they all used to chatter French, each one worse than her neighbor.

Hans Christian Andersen

#15. Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Hans Christian Andersen

#16. To travel is to live.

Hans Christian Andersen

#17. I saved you," Andersen said at last, slowly but firmly, like Pat was an idiot child who had to be reminded of the basic rules of the universe. To wit: Gravity exists. Time purports to flow in a linear fashion, but it's only trying to fool us. I saved you.

Alex Gabriel

#18. Hans and Christian just stare at me, faces grim. All I can think of is how awesome it would be if my name were Andersen.

Cyn Balog

#19. With faith come trials of faith, bringing increased faith.

Neil L. Andersen

#20. One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

Hans Christian Andersen

#21. they made themselves comfortable.

Hans Christian Andersen

#22. I can teach you to dance, but you have to hear the music.

Wilford W. Andersen

#23. To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

Hans Christian Andersen

#24. His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

Hans Christian Andersen

#25. Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad.

Kurt Andersen

#26. As surely as the Lord has inspired more missionaries to serve, He is also awakening the minds and opening the hearts of more good and honest people to receive His missionaries.

Neil L. Andersen

#27. Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance!

Nancy Tellem

#28. When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.

Uell Stanley Andersen

#29. life has several options
from here

a new place

new idea

new love

or an endless nightmare

Colin Andersen

#30. Don't ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!

Hans Christian Andersen

#31. Wouldn't you like to be my lord Duke of Exeter? Come on, Dom. Say something."
"You have lost your mind."
"Say something less insulting.

Laura Andersen

#32. I don't know what the point of that would be. We can't just declare war on people because we don't understand what they do." "That, my friend, is pinko commie bullshit. Exactly the type of thing I would expect to come out of your mouth.

Andersen Prunty

#33. better than the others. I think he will grow up pretty,

Hans Christian Andersen

#34. In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie is.

Thom Andersen

#35. The Ugly Duckling The classic story by Hans Christian

Hans Christian Andersen

#36. Travelling expands the mind rarely.

Hans Christian Andersen

#37. Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

Hans Christian Andersen

#38. Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more.

Hans Christian Andersen

#39. Delayed is not forgotten!

Hans Christian Andersen

#40. As we act in faith, we often find that the blessings from the Lord are different than we expected but much better than we imagined.

Neil L. Andersen

#41. Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

Kurt Andersen

#42. And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.

Hans Christian Andersen

#43. And, above all, beware of the cat.

Hans Christian Andersen

#44. The heart that one can see clearly, for the most essential things are invisible

Hans Christian Andersen

#45. She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.

Hans Christian Andersen

#46. They reached the Tabernacle. It looked like it had been converted from a one room schoolhouse. "It used to be a one room schoolhouse," Mindy said. The

Andersen Prunty

#47. The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to "re-turn" toward God.

Neil L. Andersen

#48. My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Hans Christian Andersen

#49. Sometimes it just doesn't seem to matter that I know what I should be doing. I still do what I am gonna do.

Susan Andersen

#50. What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.

Susan Andersen

#51. Challenges will come to you, but as you trust in God, they will strengthen your faith.

Neil L. Andersen

#52. Child, looking through bubbles into the future; now those bright bubbles were all behind him. Once more he had

Hans Christian Andersen

#53. Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

Hans Christian Andersen

#54. Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

Hans Christian Andersen

#55. I want to be undone by you. I want to be the one to come to pieces in your arms, to forget there is anything in this world but the two of us.

Laura Andersen

#56. Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!

Hans Christian Andersen

#57. In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

Francis Ford Coppola

#58. Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation. For nothing is impossible to the Subconscious Mind and it operates entirely by suggestion.

Uell Stanley Andersen

#59. You have to admire the human spirit - we'll continue building things just so someone else can watch them fall.

Andersen Prunty

#60. If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.

Neil L. Andersen

#61. push it myself." On the next day the weather was delightful, and the sun shone brightly on the green burdock

Hans Christian Andersen

#62. Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

Hans Christian Andersen

#63. Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

Uell Stanley Andersen

#64. Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

Hans Christian Andersen

#65. The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God.

Neil L. Andersen

#66. You are His disciple; you are His friend. By His grace He will do for you what you cannot do for yourself.

Neil L. Andersen

#67. Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.

Neil L. Andersen

#68. You have become my thinking's single thought, My heart's first love: it had no love before. I love you as no love on earth is wrought, I love you now and love you evermore.

Hans Christian Andersen

#69. Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power are available to you. When you fully realize that thought causes all, you will know there are never any limits that you yourself do not impose.

Uell Stanley Andersen

#70. He'd finished watching Blossom and gone to bed.

Andersen Prunty

#71. Every author has some peculiarity in his descriptions or in his style of writing. Those who do not like him, magnify it, shrug up their shoulders, and exclaim there he is again!

Hans Christian Andersen

#72. Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.

Hans Christian Andersen

#73. We see God's miracles in His wondrous work and in our own personal lives.

Neil L. Andersen

#74. For me, the main point is that reality is rich. We can respond to it more immediately and directly, in ways where there's less displacement between representation and reality.

Thom Andersen

#75. It's no use being a qualified zoologist once you're inside the lion's mouth.

Gunnar Reiss-Andersen

#76. As you keep the commandments and pray in faith to see the Lord's hand in your life, I promise you that He will open your spiritual eyes even wider, and you will see more clearly that you are not alone.

Neil L. Andersen

#77. Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Hans Christian Andersen

#78. Now he is certainly sailing above, he on whom my wishes hang, and in whose hand I should like to lay my life's happiness. I will dare everything to win him and an immortal soul.

Hans Christian Andersen

#79. While not my personal favorite of the Disney princess films, 'The Little Mermaid' wins hands-down in my book for best Disney adaptation. Little girls waited for more than 150 years for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' to have a happy ending. Walt Disney finally gave it to her.

Alethea Kontis

#80. There was once a king's son. Nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had. He could read about everything which had ever happened in the world, and see it all represented in the most beautiful pictures.

Hans Christian Andersen

#81. It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

Hans Christian Andersen

#82. People say they want to read about life but that's not what they want at all. They want a version of life. Don't you realize, someone else's version of someone else's life is still fiction? It's still a story. But it has no imagination. That's what you people have done. You've murdered imagination.

Andersen Prunty

#83. Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;

Hans Christian Andersen

#84. It also happens that I don't actually teach about the stuff I make things about. I'm not a film history teacher. In that way, it's also a release. But the ideas that I talk about in the movie are the same I talk about in school.

Thom Andersen

#85. If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

Kurt Andersen

#86. At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.

Hans Christian Andersen

#87. One of my challenges [as a writer] is to make sure that I'm giving the reader details that the character cares about rather than details that I care about. I#d say that's key to world-building.

Jessica Andersen

#88. 1978 when she decided to contact Clinton. That's when events took a turn for the worse. As Christopher Andersen writes in American Evita: Juanita checked into Little Rock's Camelot

Victor Thorn

#89. Where are your sons?" asked the prince.
"Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!" said the woman.

Hans Christian Andersen

#90. I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

Michael Morpurgo

#91. Hans Christian Andersen said 'Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.' Maybe he was right, maybe not. Either way, just remember: enchanting as they may be, in fairytales the forests are always dark.

Greg F. Gifune

#92. Our desire to share the gospel takes all of us to our knees, and it should, because we need the Lord's help.

Neil L. Andersen

#93. Everyone knew the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about the Sandman and how he brought sweet dreams to sleepers. An early, now-defunct Reve company had even used him as their mascot. But that's all the Sandman had been - a mascot. A little grinning elf holding an hourglass.

Erin Kellison

#94. Being brave isn't about being unafraid. It's about functioning through the fear.

Jessica Andersen

#95. I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.

Lemon Andersen

#96. You can make contact with people all day but it only seems fulfilling when it's with someone you truly enjoy.

Andersen Prunty

#97. Have you ever read Hans Christian Andersen's story of The Little Mermaid, Miranda? Have you ever wanted
something so badly that you were willing to suffer the sensation of a thousand blades cutting into your feet?

Vanessa Garden

#98. Life is a faerytale written by God's hand.

Hans Christian Andersen

#99. I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.

Lemon Andersen

#100. The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'

Richard Dawkins

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