Ystad Quotes

#1. He had been working with some of them for over fifteen years. It occurred to him that these were people who made up the content of a large proportion of his life. He was now the one who had been working longer than anybody else in the Ystad CID. Once upon a time he'd been the newcomer.

Henning Mankell

#2. God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#3. Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.

Albert J. Nock

#4. My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Martha Beck

#5. ...and we have compiled what we so delicately refer to as... THE TRUTH. (Because of the danger, we considered changing our names. But we didn't. Still, we sleep with swords under our pillows.)

Brodi Ashton

#6. Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is ... you don't.

Rich Galen

#7. You can't live with literary characters no matter how much you might like to. You can have them as imaginary friends that you can call up when you need to. One of the tasks of art is to provide people with companions.

Henning Mankell

#8. Because being the right person isn't about being perfect; it's about being able to handle whatever life throws at you. I

Mike Massimino

#9. I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.

Joey Santiago

#10. I always enjoyed the hearty society of a snowstorm.

John Muir

#11. The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

Sally Quinn

#12. If the sky falls, there'll be a bigger sky behind it.

Marty Rubin

#13. We have to do a lot of things we don't want to do, Jean Louise." She blazed. "What kind of answer is that?

Harper Lee

#14. Politics for me is not Ambition but a Mission.

Narendra Modi

#15. O saar, beware!
Beware the horde,
The ones you never see.
We build your lairth,
Repair, invent,
We do all this for free.
You torch our hideth
You crunch our boneth
Kill with impunity,
But we are not
Tho helpless now.
Our day cometh. We are free.

Rachel Hartman

#16. The sound of her voice was painful. She screamed, sobbed, whispered Hallelujah. But she never sang it.

Brenna Yovanoff