Top 63 Sigrid Quotes
#1. Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.
Catherynne M Valente
#2. Helga Sigrid was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, and still had an accent right out of Wagner. She was almost as tall as he was, and as Nordic as it was possible to get without disappearing altogether whenever the sun came out.
Carsten Stroud
#3. No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.
Sigrid Undset
#4. Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.
Sigrid Undset
#5. I always watch the French news on the Internet while having my breakfast.
Sigrid Agren
#8. I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.
Sigrid Undset
#9. Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson ...
Sigrid Undset
#10. Catherine [of Siena] sent the Pope five oranges which she had candied and covered with gold leaf ... She develops the theme of the difference between the bitter and the sweet pain, and gives the Pope a recipe for making candied oranges.
Sigrid Undset
#11. Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it ...
Sigrid Undset
#12. Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.
Sigrid Undset
#13. Christ, you who were crucified! Now I have given up everything that could bind me. And I have placed myself in your hands, if you would find my life worthy enough to be freed from its servitude to Satan. Take me so that I may feel that I am your slave, for then I will possess you in return.
Sigrid Undset
#14. Her father's marvelous gentleness was not because he lacked a keen enough perception of the faults and wretchedness of others; it came from his constant searching of his own heart before God, crushing it in repentance over his own failings. No,
Sigrid Undset
#15. The blood that ran down from the cross in redemption for all sins and penance for all sorrows - that was the visible sign.
Sigrid Undset
#17. I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom
Sigrid Undset
#18. even women of great beauty cannot fare well if they lack mental power.
Sigrid Weidenweber
#19. I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months later, I was one of the fifteen finalists in an international contest.
Sigrid Agren
#20. The world is just as harsh a taskmaster as any other lord, and in the end it's a lord without mercy.
Sigrid Undset
#21. But I didn't realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.
Sigrid Undset
#22. Are you a political prisoner, Dooley?"
Her blue eyes, immense now in her gaunt face, turned a pitying gaze on the reporter who'd asked her this. "Yes," she said. "And so are you.
Sigrid Nunez
#23. All that had happened and would happen was meant to be. Everything happens as it is meant to be.
Sigrid Undset
#24. Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.
Sigrid Undset
#25. The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.
Sigrid Undset
#26. The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.
Sigrid Undset
#27. Come walk with me, come walk with me; We were not once so few But Death has stolen our company As sunshine steals the dew - He took them one by one and we Are left the only two. The
Sigrid Vansandt
#28. It is an easy matter, Olav, to be a good Christian so long as God asks no more of you than to hear sweet singing in church, and to yield Him obedience while He caresses you with the hand of a father. But a man's faith is put to the test on the day God's will is not his.
Sigrid Undset
#29. Corson wrote from Chicago that while he had never heard Hitler speak, he had read the speeches, and he seemed
Sigrid MacRae
#30. God will find you," said the priest quietly. "Stay calm and do not flee from Him who has been seeking you before you even existed in your mother's womb.
Sigrid Undset
#31. With the few small spots of light like golden stars in the night, the sweet stale scent of incense, and the warm smell of the burning wax. And she at rest within her own star.
Sigrid Undset
#32. But these events had touched her so little - like the echo of thunder from the mountains after a storm had passed over the countryside and was far away.
Sigrid Undset
#33. All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.
Sigrid Undset
#34. I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.
Sigrid Undset
#35. I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.
Sigrid Undset
#36. I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room ... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!
Sigrid Agren
#37. Queers can't destroy science fiction. No one can. No one can destroy the future. But we can, through malice or complacency or inattention, limit the future.
Sigrid Ellis
#38. I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.
Sigrid Undset
#39. Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.'
Sigrid Agren
#40. It's a good thing when you don't dare do something if you don't think it's right. But it's not good when you think something's not right because you don't dare do it.
Sigrid Undset
#41. I'm not to blame, Ramborg, if a man's heart is created in such a fashion that whatever is inscribed on it when it's young and fresh is carved deeper than all the runes that are later etched.
Sigrid Undset
#42. God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.
Sigrid Undset
#43. [Brodsky] loved cats, and sometimes for a greeting would meow.
Sigrid Nunez
#44. I try to force myself to travel light; otherwise, I tend to bring a million things that I end up never using!
Sigrid Agren
#45. I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.
Sigrid Undset
#46. I wot well you are more more godly in such-like things that I can ever be - yet, Kristin, 'tis hard for me to see how it should be a right reading of God's word to go on, as your way is, ever storing up wrath and never forgetting.
Sigrid Undset
#47. Saint Olav turned her eyes toward Christ on the cross - see, Kristin: God's love.
Sigrid Undset
#48. She saw the world as if in a vision: a dark room into which a beam of sunlight fell, with dust motes tumbling in and out, from darkness to light, and she felt that now she had finally moved into the sunbeam.
Sigrid Undset
#49. In all the years when I did not know what to believe in and therefore preferred to leave all beliefs alone, whenever I came to a place where living water welled up, blessedly cold and sweet and pure, from the earth's dark bosom, I felt that after all it must be wrong not to believe in anything.
Sigrid Undset
#50. Yes, well... I suppose the man who owns nothing is free."
Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them.
Sigrid Undset
#51. One cannot escape dogmas - those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.
Sigrid Undset
#52. But it looked as if Brother Edvin had become so wrinkled simply from smiling at people. Kristin thought she had never seen anyone who looked so cheerful or so kind. He seemed to carry within him a luminous and secret joy, and she was able to share it whenever he spoke.
Sigrid Undset
#53. You tug and strain like a young horse when it's first tied up at the stake, whenever you are tied by your heartstrings.
Sigrid Undset
#54. I'm always stressed when I have to wear a long dress, especially with those high heels. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to fall! My feet are going to get caught in the dress!'
Sigrid Agren
#55. All those wasted and squandered years when I did nothing but go around looking inside myself until I ended up alone even though I was surrounded by people. But I paid attention only to what was happenstance about them - not their true selves.
Sigrid Undset
#56. Help me, Gunnulf," begged Kristin. She was white to the very edge of her lips. "I don't know my own will." "Then say: Thy will be done," replied the priest softly.
Sigrid Undset
#57. I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.
Sigrid Agren
#58. I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.
Sigrid Agren
#59. I'm not as good a man as you are. I can't so easily forgive those I have wronged.
Sigrid Undset
#60. You mustn't believe, Kristin, that there has ever been a priest who has not had to guard himself against the Fiend at the same time as he tried to protect the lambs from the wolf.
Sigrid Undset
#61. Prayers, fasts, everything he had practiced because he had been taught to do so, suddenly seemed new to him - weapons in a glorious war for which he longed. Perhaps he would become a monk - or a priest
Sigrid Undset
#62. The most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.
Sigrid Undset
#63. All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.
Sigrid Undset
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