Bjornson Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.

H. Raven Rose

#3. 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

#4. You have to be taught to be secondclass;your not born that way

Lena Horne

#5. We have successfully achieved the target of building toilets in schools.

Narendra Modi

#6. 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

#7. it was very hard to enjoy the scenery while simultaneously being terrified of colliding with it.

Caimh McDonnell

#8. Pick your fights like you pick your nose: with complete awareness of where you are.

Colson Whitehead

#9. There were actual people in the world whose idea of heaven would be a chocolate cat.

Terry Pratchett

#10. 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

#11. You gotta know when to hold em' and you gotta know when to fold em'!

Chad Cooper

#12. 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

#13. I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.

Michael Caine

#14. Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

David Byrne

#15. 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

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

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#17. And I know I'm sarcastic and defensive and I make a joke out of everything and am highly resistant to anything that reeks of sentimental corniness, but I'm giving you my heart anyway because being with you feels like home, and I know you won't break it.

Shauna Cross

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

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#19. 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

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

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#22. 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

#23. I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

Jack Whitehall

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

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#25. Between Sylvia and me there existed as between my own mother and me - a sort of psychic osmosis which, at times, was very wonderful and comforting; at other times an unwelcome invasion of privacy (words from Aurelia Plath from the Introduction)

Sylvia Plath

#26. Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly, without question, even when everyone else is questioning how good (or sane) they are.

John Eliot

#27. 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

#28. Just because life is full of craziness doesn't mean you must go crazy. You can experience outer chaos and still find inner peace. Nothing even needs to change outside of you for you to find calm inside of you. This inner calm is available at all times. Just breathe.

Karen Salmansohn

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

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#30. There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

James Russell Lowell