Sigrid Undset Quotes

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

Sigrid Undset

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• One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Taken
  • Serious

• The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Universe
  • Ocean
  • Self

• I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • President
  • Prison

• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Man
  • Thing

• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  

  Karl Popper
  • You
  • Speak
  • Impossible

• Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Done
  • Together

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art

• For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • May
  • Fool

• To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Good
  • Great
  • Die

• What's more American than violence?' Hayduke wanted to know. 'Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • American
  • Violence
  • Pizza

• 'For a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.'

  

  Lawyer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Sex

• Lajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don’t happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • People
  • Help
  • Respect

• The story of the Narmada valley is nothing less than the story of Modern India. Like the tiger in the Belgrade zoo during the NATO bombing, we've begun to eat our own limbs.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Tiger

• My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Nature
  • Painting

• El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• There have been times when I've feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record has not been kind to the guitar players in this band.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Great
  • Band

• The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • People
  • World
  • Serious

• It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Job

• 'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Faith
  • Supernatural

• My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the decaying corpses and piercing wire; for a while, they made me harmless, locking me up in order to undertake a special diagnosis of whatever military ability I might still have. The nerves, every last fiber, repugnance, repulsion!

  

  Otto Dix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Military

• Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

  

  Sigrid Undset
  • Fate
  • Given
  • Intended