Sigrid Undset Quotes
The world is just as harsh a taskmaster as any other lord, and in the end it’s a lord without mercy.Sigrid Undset
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon -
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
Irene Rosenfeld -
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
Adam Mansbach -
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Sai Baba -
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Karl Kraus -
I like that Barack got that job.
Hannibal Buress
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If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
Joanne Rowling -
Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.
M.I.A. -
Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
Hans Frank -
Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.
Gabrielle Giffords -
'Anackire asks nothing because she needs nothing, being everything,' Raldnor said tightly, using a quotation of the temple.The Ommos laughed gently and shook his head.'Such undemanding gods.'
Tanith Lee -
That part of the air which is nearest to the wing which presses on it, will have the greatest density.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
Ausonius -
Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.
Brin-Jonathan Butler -
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
Bill Le -
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
Chaim Potok -
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
Constantin Stanislavski -
The future path of the federal funds rate is necessarily uncertain because economic activity and inflation will likely evolve in unexpected ways. For example, no one can be certain about the pace at which economic headwinds will fade. More generally, the economy will inevitably be buffeted by shocks that cannot be foreseen.
Janet Yellen
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One of the best predictors of ultimate success in either sales or non-sales selling isn't natural talent or even industry expertise, but how you explain your failures and rejections.
Daniel H. Pink -
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
Bernice Johnson Reagon -
I don't go to a psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from my dentist. They are all supposed to help you, but I like to stay in bed, where I have a chance to reflect, like Rossellini.
Marlene Dumas -
My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right
Muddy Waters -
The world is just as harsh a taskmaster as any other lord, and in the end it’s a lord without mercy.
Sigrid Undset