Top 38 Selma Lagerlof Quotes

#1. There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

Selma Lagerlof

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#2. Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.

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#3. No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

Selma Lagerlof

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#4. The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.

Selma Lagerlof

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#5. For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.

Selma Lagerlof

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#6. Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.

Selma Lagerlof

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#7. I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

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#8. Women can do nothing that has permanence.

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#9. Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#10. There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

Selma Lagerlof

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#11. What is so certain of victory as patience?

Selma Lagerlof

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#12. I asked John if it was a crime to want to live in a world where girls with falcon eyes and pretty underwear believe in the saving grace of rock 'n' roll and he said, "Just check your chute before you jump, that's all I'm saying." Gotta get some sleep. Over.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

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#13. Anyone who has ever sat in a train as it rushes through a dark night will know that sometimes there are long minutes when the coaches slide smoothly along without so much as a shudder.

Selma Lagerlof

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#14. There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

Paul Stanley

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#15. He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

Selma Lagerlof

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#16. (U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it is still with us.

Northrop Frye

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#17. A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

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#18. There is so little that one can do for the dead!

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#19. You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.

Lewis Black

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#20. It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

Selma Lagerlof

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#21. It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do ...

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#22. Being Governor of a state is generally considered a prelude or stepping stone to a U.S. Senate seat. Not so in Alabama. The governor's office has always seemed to be the ultimate brass ring

Steve Flowers

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#23. What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those who have written of me.

Selma Lagerlof

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#24. Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

Nathan Myhrvold

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#25. More die in flight than in battle.

Selma Lagerlof

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#26. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come within.

Thomas Hardy

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#27. Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has

William Osler

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#28. Here, no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

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#29. There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.

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#30. For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

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#31. Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.

Selma Lagerlof

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#32. It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about.

Selma Lagerlof

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#33. The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

Paul Bremer

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#34. Life's about living and being happy, not about dying.

Dean Koontz

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#35. If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

Michael Franti

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#36. I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.

Selma Lagerlof

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#37. Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

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#38. In our ignorance, there will always be a rebuke, a murmur, or an opinion that is not in line with God. Without knowing it, we begin to speak against the ways of God, the house of God, or the man or the woman of God.

John A. Tetsola

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