Arto Paasilinna Quotes

Sometimes conceiving an affection for an animal is easier than for a human.

Arto Paasilinna

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• I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Drive
  • Effect
  • Fears

• It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Team
  • Same
  • Evolution

• Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Football
  • Young
  • Normal

• I only know what I read in the papers.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Know
  • Read
  • Only

• When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Energy
  • Kid
  • Films

• No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Constitution
  • Fair
  • Both

• In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • World
  • Business
  • Today

• One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Party
  • California

• For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Important
  • Women
  • Independent

• I think we all have had better days in competition.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Think
  • Better
  • Competition

• You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Way
  • You
  • Stop

• I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Like
  • Details
  • Honestly

• Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Legal
  • Bitcoin

• All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • God
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Stop

• There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

  

  John Adams
  • Great
  • Political
  • Evil

• To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

  

  William Pickens
  • Women
  • Human
  • Psychology

• God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Present
  • Perfection

• In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is, where the speaker would pause for emphasis, or take a breath. The best test for locating an attributive is to speak the sentence aloud.

  

  E. B. White

• And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • God
  • Geometry
  • Significations

• That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Words
  • Right
  • Pictures

• Sometimes conceiving an affection for an animal is easier than for a human.

  

  Arto Paasilinna
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Affection