Stefansson Vilhjalmur Quotes

#1. His person and air were equal to what her fancy had ever drawn for the hero of a favourite story.

Jane Austen

#2. It is in the nature of 9 men out of 10 that what may be theirs for the picking up, they are much inclined to despise, and what seems to be out of reach, they instantly and fervently desire.

Georgette Heyer

#3. A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#4. It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

William Mathews

#5. The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#6. False modesty is better than none.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#7. The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#8. I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what become permanent can be indestructible.

Chigozie Obioma

#9. What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#10. I don't know how to protect you. The world's fucked up, and I feel like we're cripples limping through it together.

Tam Linsey

#11. Married people grow like each other.

Graham Greene

#12. Are you having a good time with ... Ash?" "Are you having a good time with Happy Hands?" I bit down on my lip. "Such a constant smartass.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#13. There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#14. If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that ... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Khaled Mashal

#16. Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#17. You should write because some stray scrap of your soul is trying to manifest itself verbally.

Dennis Lehane

#18. Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson