Saabye Quotes

#1. To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.

David Malpass

#2. The sunset was really over, but a thunderously deep stain of red still lay across the furthest limit of the western sky. I looked out to it for a moment. Skye was somewhere out there, more felt than seen.

Iain Banks

#3. There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

Susan Anton

#4. As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.

John McCain

#5. mShe was standing still, leaning against the moonlight.

Lars Saabye Christensen

#6. All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Frank Herbert

#7. We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us.

Lars Saabye Christensen

#8. I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer.

Nelson Algren

#9. In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#10. Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.

Alcee Hastings

#11. I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger ... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

Andy Murray

#12. ... and it occured to me then and forever afterwards, that films, theatre books and poems were just a fraud. It's only music that doesn't deceive, it doesn't pretend to be anything else except what it is. Music.

Lars Saabye Christensen

#13. Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

Harrison Birtwistle

#14. At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than those with information, and they profit by exploiting the mismatch.

Ben Thompson

#15. Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.

Andrew Mitchell

#16. In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#17. Do you want me to kill your father, Barnum?

Lars Saabye Christensen

#18. If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

Friedrich Nietzsche