Fredrika Quotes

#1. Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?"
"Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth."
"Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms.

MaryJanice Davidson

#2. The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.

Fredrika Bremer

#3. The thing about goalscorers is that they score goals.

Tony Cottee

#4. Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.

Fredrika Bremer

#5. At a certain depth all bosoms communicate, all hearts are one.

Fredrika Bremer

#6. Lolling around libraries paging through books that haven't been checked out since 1975 is one of my principal joys as a writer.

Ben Bova

#7. I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

Fredrika Bremer

#8. If we can let ourselves, all of us, be united by the simple fact of having a difference, we will be bigger and stronger and more powerful than anyone who might otherwise make us feel small.

Paige Rawl

#9. Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself that all of that time and energy wasn't wasted, that it will make you a better writer, if nothing else.

Mary J. Miller

#10. There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Fredrika Bremer

#11. I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one.

Ben Crenshaw

#12. These Americans believe that everything is possible ...

Fredrika Bremer

#13. If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should non deplore their lot but nothing, nothing.

Fredrika Bremer

#14. I do what I do because there's nothing else I can do.

Colleen Saidman

#15. For the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.

Fredrika Bremer

#16. Every bite you eat stays in mouth for two minutes, for two hours in stomach and for two month on hips.

Christian Dior

#17. I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.

Fredrika Bremer

#18. Together, we would only bring chaos.

Alessandra Torre

#19. Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.

Fredrika Bremer

#20. A clever trick does not a concept make.

Larry Brooks

#21. The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.

Fredrika Bremer

#22. A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

Fredrika Bremer

#23. North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case.

Fredrika Bremer

#24. I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

Rita Dove

#25. If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.

Vince Lombardi

#26. If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.

Fredrika Bremer

#27. It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Gautama Buddha

#28. On my days off, I like to be outdoors - on my bike or walking the dog or swimming - so it's important anyone I date is also into fitness.

Mollie King

#29. People seek for the spiritual champagne, but they mistake what it is ...

Fredrika Bremer

#30. The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.
The duty of government is to help them do it.
This is the pasta of politics.
The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta.
Bombolini

Robert Crichton