Bjornson Bjornstjerne Quotes

#1. I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking their Christianity.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#2. God's supreme word to us is life; our highest worship of Him is love for the living.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#3. Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#4. Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

Adam Gopnik

#5. Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#6. My Aincrad style of swordsmanship was brought here from the floating castle. From a game of death, where every battle risked the ultimate price.

Reki Kawahara

#7. Svava: "Rule number one: Never make a fool of yourself."
Riis: "Rule number two: Never be a burden to any one."
Svava: "Rule number three: Always be in the fashion.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#8. But life does not consist of words.
Life consists of reality.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#9. Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#10. Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#11. I want to go away, oh so far, far away.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#12. Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was.

Peter P. Mahoney

#13. If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Bernard Meltzer

#14. Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#15. A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#16. Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

Jane Fonda

#17. Natures and features last until the grave

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#18. The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#19. Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.

Rick Astley

#20. There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#21. They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable.

Melissa De La Cruz

#22. The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#23. A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson