March 5, 2010

Barncitat

Filed under: In Swedish/PĂ„ svenska, Quotes — Sigrinn @ 23:41

Denna scen utspelades framför mina ögon nÀr jag var pÄvÀg hem frÄn jobbet idag:

Pojke i 7-ÄrsÄldern, till annan pojke i ungefÀr samma Älder:

- Om man Ă€r pĂ„ vĂ€g att bli ovĂ€nner ska man sĂ€ga “förlĂ„t” sĂ„ fort man bara kan, det har jag lĂ€st, för dĂ„ blir man inte ovĂ€nner.

October 26, 2009

Filed under: In English, Quotes, Text only — Sigrinn @ 22:51



“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”

~ Rumi

March 23, 2009

Paulo Coelho: When do we need to break the rules?

Filed under: In Swedish/PĂ„ svenska, Politik, Quotes — Sigrinn @ 18:25

Den sydamerikanske författaren Paulo Coelho uppmanar lĂ€sarna av sin blogg att diskutera frĂ„gan “NĂ€r ska man bryta mot reglerna?”
Det Àr en intressant diskussion att följa.

Ett av svaren Paulo fÄr Àr:
“We break the rules when they no longer make sense to us.”

Det kĂ€nns som att vi i Sverige Ă€r pĂ„vĂ€g till ett samhĂ€llsskick dĂ€r vi fĂ„r en massa lagar och regler som inte lĂ€ngre kĂ€nns vettiga. Om medborgarna i ett land inte kan uppleva lagarna som vettiga – hur tror man dĂ„ att dessa lagar ska kunna upprĂ€tthĂ„llas? Och för vem har man stiftat dessa lagar?

November 23, 2008

Quote #18

Filed under: In English, Poetry, Quotes, Text only — Sigrinn @ 23:55

“To see a world in a grain of sand,
and heaven in a wildflower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.”

~ William Blake

November 5, 2008

Quote #17

Filed under: In English, Quotes — Sigrinn @ 20:05

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.”

~ Winston Churchill

October 25, 2008

Ja se grannar…

Filed under: In Swedish/PĂ„ svenska, Quotes, Text only — Sigrinn @ 00:21

Inte varje dag man fÄr ett telefonsamtal frÄn en granne som lyder:

- Hej, kan du komma över och hjĂ€lpa mig att ta pĂ„ mig min tvĂ„ngströja? Jag kan inte knĂ€ppa den sjĂ€lv…

September 20, 2008

Quote #16

Filed under: In English, Quotes, Text only — Sigrinn @ 14:14

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

~ Michelangelo (1475-1564)

more quotes from Michelangelo

September 5, 2008

Guess what?

Filed under: Books, In English, Politik, Quotes — Sigrinn @ 15:45

Yet another quote from a Robin Hobb-book! But this one will be the last one for a while:

‘It’s that – no matter how far you go back, someone took the land from someone else. I don’t think anything can be solved by trying to work out who stole it first. The solution is in the future, Epiny, not the past.’

from Renegade’s Magic (page 183), book three of The Soldier Son Trilogy.

Read other posts where I quoted Robin Hobb here and here.

September 4, 2008

Veronika decides to die

Filed under: Books, In English, Politik, Quotes, Text only — Sigrinn @ 17:00

This time you’ll have a qoute from Paulo Coelho’s book Veronika decides to die:

‘… You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.’
‘Is wanting to be different a serious illness?’
‘It is if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else: it causes neuroses, psychoses and paranoia…’

(page 153)

August 20, 2008

More Robin Hobb

Filed under: Books, In English, Politik, Quotes — Sigrinn @ 22:44

“It was as if he believed that if we took their culture away from them, they’d instantly convert to thinking like Gernians. As if our way of seeing the world were the only real one, and that anyone, given the opportunity, would think like we do.”

from the book Forest Mage (p. 782), book two in The Soldier Son trilogy by Robin Hobb

Read another qoute from this book.