Jon Kalman Stefansson Quotes

#1. The queue for happiness was not well ordered, he thought; it stretched out and wound round corners, and sometimes, it seemed, the end was so hard to see.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. He who has no dream is in danger

Jon Kalman Stefansson

#3. Maybe someday you'll realize that we are both solid despite the cracks.

Amy Reed

#4. Bardur and the boy had leaned back a bit and looked at the sparkling sky that makes us humble and powerful at once and seems sometimes to speak to us. What is says carefully cleanses old wounds.

Jon Kalman Stefansson

#5. Many people who talk about the discovery method of teaching are really talking about arranging a lesson or an experiment so that students discover what they are supposed to discover. That is not an exploration. The whole tradition of exploration is being lost for entire generations.

Frank Oppenheimer

#6. It took losing all that I held dear for me to learn a valuable lesson: only when everything is gone are you truly free.

Laura Thalassa

#7. When man spoke his first word he became the thread that quivers eternally between evil and goodness, Heaven and Hell.

Jon Kalman Stefansson

#8. I own a lot of shoes; I am not sure how many.

Kristin Cavallari

#9. Hell is having arms but no one to embrace.

Jon Kalman Stefansson

#10. Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse.

Criss Jami

#11. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Darynda Jones

#12. The person from whom we need love most is ourselves.

Charles F. Glassman