Astrid Lindgren Brothers Lionheart Quotes

#1. God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#2. We will marry each other.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. Even a brilliant mind sometimes needs a dull stone to sharpen itself.

Ken Liu

#5. Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.

Katha Pollitt

#6. You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.

Robert De Niro

#7. A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.

Richie Norton

#9. Anger is a fuel that can only carry you so far.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#10. Nowadays, you have to hire a blogger to fend off the bloggers. This blogging game is playing out nicely.

Ann Althouse

#11. Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

Pankaj Mishra

#12. I am trying to sell beauty.
Worst that you can do to me is not buy it!

Koral Dasgupta

#13. These are bad times for people who like to sit outside the library at dawn on a rainy morning and get ripped to the tits on crank and powerful music.

Hunter S. Thompson