Stockmann Quotes

#1. Dr. Stockmann: Yes, I can afford it now. Katherine tells me I earn almost as much as we spend.
Peter Stockmann: Almost - yes!

Henrik Ibsen

#2. Dr. Stockmann. I have already told you that what I want to speak about
is the great discovery I have made lately
the discovery that all the
sources of our moral life are poisoned and that the hole fabric of our
civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood.

Henrik Ibsen

#3. One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

Marianne Williamson

#6. Avoid success at all costs

Simon Peyton Jones

#7. I used up most of my passions and energies during the years I've mentioned, and though I don't talk much about it, the chief thing I've asked from the world since then is to leave me alone.

James Hilton

#8. I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.

Tony Abbott

#9. There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man.

Joseph Conrad

#10. Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

Jose Rizal

#11. I shake my head. "Not my kind of scene. I'd rather be home with my book boyfriend."
"I'll never get what you book sluts get out of a fictional man ... " He shakes his head.
"Boys in books are better.

Danielle Torella

#12. Some people make you laugh a little louder, your smile a little brighter, and your life a little better.

Anonymous

#13. Y'cannae see can ye? Y'know who christened you lot the 'underclass'? The same sinister bastards that changed Windscale to Sellafield...they're nuthin' but a lot of jumped-up fascist bastards!

Ian Pattison

#14. Love is a sacred soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#16. Life is not about what you can accumulate. I learned to live when I learned to give.

Anne F. Beiler

#17. Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being
being quiet, being grateful.

Bess Myerson