Borkman Quotes

#1. You must not think, Mrs. Borkman, that I haven't said the same to him. I have laid my whole life before him. Again and again I have reminded him that I am seven years older than he -

Henrik Ibsen

#2. Don't worry, Bill," Borkman told me. "I have Muriel and Richard in my pocket-back!" "In your back pocket - yes," I said to the crafty deerstalker on skis.

John Irving

#3. How do we love all the children of all species for all time?

William McDonough

#4. Don't take things for granted.

Allen Evangelista

#5. He was willing to exchange soul-destroying suspicion for heartbreaking reality. Accordingly,

Betty Smith

#6. I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square
but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

Jacob M. Appel

#7. Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

Maria Montessori

#8. There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character ... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

Jodi Picoult

#9. (" 'Sacrifice,' " Sylvie said, "is a word that makes people feel noble about slaughter.") But,

Kate Atkinson

#10. If there was no Lego in Billund, there will almost be no Billund ... Lego is Billund, and Billund is Lego.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

#11. (Is) Euroepan Identity: The Death of National Era?

Endri Shqerra

#12. The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

John Calvin

#13. The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

E.Y. Harburg

#14. I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

Bob Iger

#15. Digital networks are increasing the fluidity of all media. The old choice between one-way public media (like books and movies) and two-way private media (like the phone) has now expanded to include a third option: two-way media that operates on a scale from private to public.

Clay Shirky

#16. The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

Henry Rollins

#17. The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.

David W. Orr