Edith Södergran Quotes

My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.

Edith Södergran

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• I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Universe

• I think extreme secrecy is a bad sign in all startups. Very few startups die because they tell you exactly how their technology works. On the long list of startup killers, that's pretty far down. Though on the list of entrepreneur fears, it's pretty high.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Long
  • Bad
  • High

• The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • World
  • Long
  • Democracy

• One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Rock
  • Used
  • Rhythm

• It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Way

• That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Water

• Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We'll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We'll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We'll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Great
  • Country
  • Book

• Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Past
  • Education
  • Mean

• Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Pain
  • Sometimes
  • Eye

• As a disciplined African head of state, I will follow the decisions of the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union on how to resolve the Ivorian conflict.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • State
  • African
  • Disciplined

• Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in . . . The edit.

  

  Will Self
  • Real
  • Mean
  • Feelings

• When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused on the minutiae. You're focused on the overall feel, and that's the stuff that I get from the demos. First impressions are always the most important. When you start getting into a full-band, democratic context the little things almost immediately get thrown out the window because you don't think they're important.

  

  Adam Granduciel
  • Important
  • Impressions
  • Demos

• Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.

  

  Carl Friedrich von Rumohr
  • People
  • Food
  • Intellectual

• Nowadays, all the world over, we cannot confine the definition of a nationality to the narrow bounds of race, religion etc, Nations are extending the rights of their respective communities even to others who may not belong to them except by their mere residence amongst them and their determination to live and be with them.

  

  Aung San
  • Rights
  • Nations
  • Communities

• ...unless you were doing them a favor by killing them. Then, you'd let them down if you didn't, if you couldn't make yourself.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Killing
  • Favor

• My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.

  

  Edith Södergran
  • Discovered
  • Dimensions
  • Self-confidence