Gerhild Or Lork Quotes

#1. The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

Margot Fonteyn

#2. The violence of power is unacceptable only when we see it in action.

Olivier Razac

#3. Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

Kelly Clarkson

#4. [R]elying on nonfinancial motivations may actually make systems more tolerant of variable participation.

Clay Shirky

#5. The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

Edith Wharton

#6. If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.

John Quincy Adams

#7. This was how the world ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Andrea Speed

#8. Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

William Gurnall

#9. We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

Bertrand Russell

#10. If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

Andrew Jackson

#11. Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

Shia Labeouf

#12. We all have demons. True fighters chain them to the pit of their dark souls.

L.J. Shen

#13. The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

Ramakrishna

#14. How could the war have any semblance of reality when you found yourself sitting under a plane tree in a playground, in the provincial calm of an early afternoon?

Patrick Modiano