Eidsvoll Manor Quotes

#1. I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

Harri Holkeri

#2. The bourgeoisie, when it was struggling against the nobility sustained by the clergy, hoisted the flag of free thought and atheism; but once triumphant, it changed its tone and manner and today it uses religion to support its economic and political supremacy

Paul Lafargue

#3. That's the great thing about literature
it makes the world less lonely.

Robert Stone

#4. Run for the hills. The Bible commands us to "flee immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Only a fool says, "I can handle temptation without sinning." The wise man says, "I'm not going anywhere near it.

Stephen Kendrick

#5. What a sad world sin had caused.

Lyn Cote

#6. The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise.

Robert Aris Willmott

#7. Yes, a Major would mean so much to me but I'm a great believer that if you work hard and in the right way, you will get what you deserve.

Lee Westwood

#8. Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think.

Roald Hoffmann

#9. And Hodor came lumbering in shouting Hodor! Hodor! Hodor!

George R R Martin

#10. I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

Penelope Lively

#11. We make our own truths and lies ... Truths are often lies and lies truths ...

Bernhard Schlink

#12. Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.

King Felipe VI

#13. They displayed a sophistication in warfare as good as anything he had ever encountered, and he had been trained by the best fighters in the universe then seasoned in battles where only the superior few survived.

Frank Herbert

#14. Work, Mrs. Hill knew, might not be a cure for all ailments, but it was a sovereign remedy against the more brooding kinds.

Jo Baker

#15. My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.

David Byrne