Kurtwallander Quotes

#1. It was plain that this lady was not accustomed to being interrupted, much less contradicted. She had probably never in her life had that salutary experience.

Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

#2. I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

Philip Larkin

#3. By His grace, God has already done everything to provide salvation. Your part is simply to believe and receive.

Paul Silway

#4. The fire was extinguished, and sniper fire had ceased. Nobody will budge, they were all dead. And the wind swept across jagged rocks, without a song of reconciliation.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#5. The world only mattered because people lived there and sometimes, in spite of the pain, tragedy, and degradation, even managed to triumph there.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#6. You can't live with literary characters no matter how much you might like to. You can have them as imaginary friends that you can call up when you need to. One of the tasks of art is to provide people with companions.

Henning Mankell

#7. A goal is important, but what you become to achieve that goal is much more important.

Debasish Mridha

#8. The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

Ray Kroc

#9. Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

Ann Landers

#10. A good day is when no one shows up, and you don't have to go anywhere.

Burt Shavitz

#11. Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

Toni Morrison

#12. The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.

Henry Paulson