“The Icelanders never got anything in exchange from the Danes except hunger.”
Jason Gottfreðsson
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens
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“Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Source: The Eye of the World
“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
Radio broadcast http://books.google.com/books?id=_YBkWL9XBfcC&q=%22We+do+not+covet+anything+from+any+nation+except+their+respect%22&pg=PA403#v=onepage to German occupied, Vichy, and Free France (21 October 1940) <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945)
“He's got a great sense of humor for a guy who never says anything.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Source: City of Bones
“I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight..”
Pancho Villa (1878–1923) Mexican revolutionary
“So I never felt anything except how bad I was and like, "Oh, shame on you!"”
Sophie B. Hawkins (1967) American musician
Interviewed by Cathay Che, The Advocate (8 May 2001)
Context: The message I got from my record label at the time — and this was on purpose — was that I wasn't selling enough. Even when the single was a hit, it wasn't enough of a hit — I never got to number 1; I only got to number 5. And MTV didn't like the first video for the song, and we had to do another one. So I never felt anything except how bad I was and like, "Oh, shame on you!"
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-born American writer
As quoted in The #1 New York Times Bestseller (1992) by John Bear, p. 93
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Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837) Italian poet, philosopher and writer
Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander
