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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
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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.
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Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
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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.
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'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.'
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That part of the air which is nearest to the wing which presses on it, will have the greatest density.
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Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
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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.
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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.
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I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
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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.
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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.
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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I think Messi is the best forward in the world. It is very difficult to play against him. But he is not only a forward, he is moving everywhere. He is a very good player.
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People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
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The world is just as harsh a taskmaster as any other lord, and in the end it’s a lord without mercy.
