“To explain God would be to have no God, my little one.”
Halldór Laxness book The Atom Station
Ugla's father
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
“It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline
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2010s, North Korea's Race Problem (February 2010)
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Martin Luther book Confession Concerning Christ's Supper
Confession Concerning Christ's Supper, Part 3. Robert E. Smith, tr.<cite>Dr. Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesamtsusgabe</cite>. (Weimar: Herman Boehlaus Nachfolger, 1909), pp.499-500. http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/luther-quoting.txt <br class="br">Context: By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words -- or the words of others?
“Bored! My God, to think that I could ever have been bored up there.”
John Wyndham book The Secret People
Pt. II, Ch. II - p.64
Novels, The Secret People (1935)
