Stoltenberg Quotes

#1. Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. The answer to violence is even more democracy. Even more humanity.

Jens Stoltenberg

#3. Today we are all Egyptians.

Jens Stoltenberg

#4. You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

John Oliver

#5. The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.

Jens Stoltenberg

#6. When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people.

Jens Stoltenberg

#7. Dont panic, Allison," soothed a low, quiet voice, stopping me from doing just that. I jerked my gaze to the door ... and there he was, standing beside the frame, watching me. "I'm right here.

Julie Kagawa

#8. Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory ...

John Muir

#9. Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual orientation, regimentation is more about where we need to be going.

John Stoltenberg

#10. Evil can kill a person, but never conquer a nation.

Jens Stoltenberg

#11. art is worthless
unless it plants
a measure of splendor in people's hearts

Taha Muhammad Ali

#12. Oh, we'll fuck Sienna. Believe me, it's been bound to happen since I first laid eyes on you. But this time it's going to be because you beg me. Not the other way around. And when you do, it'll be because you're ready to to completely give yourself to me.

Emily Snow

#13. Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Jens Stoltenberg

#14. Being happy is knowing how to be content with little

Epicurus

#15. By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

Jens Stoltenberg

#16. I am surprised that Chicago - the Big-Shouldered City - is so trifling that they won't let you eat in a restaurant if it's on fire. Even if you already paid.

Jill Conner Browne

#17. Reconquer the streets, the markets - the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not give up. With torches and roses, we deliver this message to the world: We do not let fear break us. And we do not let the fear of fear silence us.

Jens Stoltenberg

#18. I do my best thinkin' on paper

Jamye Stewart

#19. Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.

John Stoltenberg

#20. [...] I've learned something about my own hunches: the only time they turn out to be meaningful is when I ignore them.

Steven Brust

#21. We have a high standard of living ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

Jens Stoltenberg

#22. We will not put a lid on opinions. On the contrary, it is more important than ever that political debates are open and free, even on the most difficult issues. Especially on the most difficult issues. The task is to encourage controversial debates in a form that strengthens democracy.

Jens Stoltenberg

#23. I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.

Jens Stoltenberg

#24. Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

John Stoltenberg

#25. But the idea of an Aryan race could never become metaphysically true, despite all the violence unleashed to create it, because there simply is no Aryan race. There is only the idea of it - and the consequences of trying to make it seem real. The male sex is very like that.

John Stoltenberg

#26. The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,

Jens Stoltenberg

#27. Celebrate your life now, as it unfolds.
Turn away from judgement and negative theories about your worth, your potential, and your destiny. See what you already have.

Danny Gregory