Finmark Trust Quotes

#1. When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.

Zach Woods

#2. Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

Susan Sontag

#3. The fixed-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams. They just need little helpers to carry out their brilliant ideas.

Carol S. Dweck

#4. Nonmonogamous folks are constantly engaged in their relationships: they negotiate and establish boundaries, respect them, test them, and, yes, even violate them. But the limits are not assumed or set by society; they are consciously chosen.

Tristan Taormino

#5. So what are you afraid of?" She paused, considering how to answer. "Hope." His brow furrowed. "Hope scares you?" "I try not to hope for anything," she said. "If you expect nothing, you aren't disappointed when you get nothing." "That's

J.M. Darhower

#6. It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

Jim Costa

#7. We used to pick berries by the Ruhr. My sister and me.

Anthony Doerr

#8. We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

William Gibson

#9. Don't mix your heart with your liver.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. O Jesus, my Divine Saviour, I offer You my mind and heart. Direct their movements while I pray, so that I may offer my prayer in union with Your Immaculate Mother.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#11. We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

Alexander Pope

#12. You should shower," I said. "Right now."
"I smell that bad?"
Actually, he smelled that good.

Becca Fitzpatrick