Fridtjof Quotes

#1. I demolish my bridges behind me ... then there is no choice but to move forward

Fridtjof Nansen

#2. Oh, no! my heart can never be
Again in lightest hopes the same;
The love that lingers there for thee
Hath more of ashes than of flame.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#3. In creativity, brightest minds have no place You have to think from the heart

Raghu Rai

#4. It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

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#5. Apparently, the easiest way to overcome any awkwardness of speaking about sex is to sterilize it and outsource it to the professionals.

Matthew Lee Anderson

#6. It's not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with long-lasting careers. And that's what I've had as my target all my life.

Clive Davis

#7. Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.

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#8. Hope is a rickety craft to trust one's self to. I

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#9. Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

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#10. There was lightning behind Mr. Sayre's eyes, and it was looking for a place to strike.

Robert McCammon

#11. Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!

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#12. Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

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#13. War will cease when men refuse to fight.

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#14. Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

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#15. The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places.

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#16. I tend to believe simple things are the real things.

Marty Rubin

#17. Perhaps reading and writing books is one of the last defences human dignity has left, because in the end they remind us of what God once reminded us before He too evaporated in this age of relentless humiliations - that we are more than ourselves; that we have souls.

Richard Flanagan

#18. Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

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#19. The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.

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#20. Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.

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#21. The difficult is what takes a little time. The impossible is what takes a little longer.

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#22. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

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#23. It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Charles Caleb Colton

#24. The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

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#25. A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words.

Lee Van Cleef

#26. If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose sombre shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace.

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#27. My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

Julie Walters

#28. You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well, and it has a deeper meaning for a people than most of us perceive.

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