Fairhair Quotes

#1. The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#2. I could stand before him, be in his arms as I was just then, and still be lost to him, some phantom of a desire he cherished more than he cherished me, the woman he claimed to love.

Alexander Chee

#3. When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

Warren Buffett

#4. Focke's razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles.

Kevin Focke

#5. You are beautiful because you let yourself feel, and that is a brave thing indeed.

Shinji Moon

#6. The wonderful world!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.

Ricky Gervais

#8. His whole life had been merely a long preparation for misfortune,

Stendhal

#9. Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against skepticism and against dogmatism, against unbelief and superstition ... [and therefore] 'On to God!

Max Planck

#10. The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

William Gibson

#11. The other day the grass was brown, now its green cuz I ain't give up. Never surrender.

DJ Khaled

#12. Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.

Alice Hoffman