If one is silent for too long, then the tongue withers
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
When you are extra strong, you have a special obligation to be sweet to others
Even when your life seems most monotonous, what you do is always of real value — and importance to your fellow men.
People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
All warfare is based on deception.
You start by saving up 100 million kroner and take it from there.
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression – there are hints about who you are in what you wear.
There are some who claim that football is a matter of life and death. It’s an attitude that disappoints me. I can assure you that football is much more than that!
It was nice you came, but it’s even nicer that you go
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
A man should only work 4 hours a day so he may have time to devote himself to the arts and sciences.
I believe that if you just get up and go, life will open up to you.
If you fail in your preparation, you might as well prepare to fail.
If you ever find yourself cringing at something you did in the past, it means you have grown as a person.
I start a fire and every time I exercise, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I strike the match.
You have to go through hell to be successful. There’s a reason the devil wears Prada.
You may have had fun at the time teasing, but in fact it wasn’t much fun to be teased. But I thank you, somewhere, for having done it, because it made me take up something that I love to this day – and that no one, then or now, can take me away from.
One of the worst things that can happen to a journalist is a belief in authority.
Maybe it should have changed me more [to become a mother, ed.]. I sometimes wonder if I was at home enough with my children, but it’s no use now, because it can’t be helped. They have survived.
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
My articles were based on something I wanted to change. Everyone has the right to a decent life, and I thought it was important to give vulnerable people support and confidence. I was brought up to respect other people.
I desire nothing, but I want everything.
Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.
The top of it all is then, I really wished him (Solbakken, ed.) To get that victory goal made and piss on those farmers. And I want to be allowed to say “piss on those farmers” because those spectators do not deserve another name.