Quotes by Swedish Authors

"You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all."

Stefan Edberg, Swedish Athlete

Nothing, Wrong

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"From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning."

Eyvind Johnson, Swedish Author

Inspirational, Thought, Inspiration, May, Meaning

1

"As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?"

Hjalmar Branting, Swedish Statesman

Peace, War, Aspirations, Result

1

"The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations."

Alva Myrdal, Swedish Diplomat

Peace, Men, Ambition, Leading

1

"The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them."

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Swedish Musician

Religion, Conflict, First, Rights

1

"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

Experience, Peace, Quiet

1

"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."

Ellen Key, Swedish Writer

History, Women, Affirmation, Right

1

"I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties."

Steig Larsson, Swedish Author

Creativity, Idea, Books, Fun, Old

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"I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can."

Hans Blix, Swedish Diplomat

War, Autumn, Iraq, President

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"In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions."

Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist

Love, Faith, Actions, Body

"I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious."

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Swedish Musician

Faith, Religious, Schools

"I can't walk by chocolate without eating it."

Malin Akerman, Swedish Actress

Eating,

"I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard."

Hans Blix, Swedish Diplomat

Fear, Action, Destruction

"Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own."

Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist

Love, Delight, Feeling

"I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside."

Ingrid Bergman, Swedish Actress

Success, Day, Security, Tears

"Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger."

Anders Zorn, Swedish Artist

Family, Mother, Goodbye, Snow

"In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor."

Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist

Love, Heaven

"A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them."

Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish Scientist

First, Loss, Will

"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."

Alva Myrdal, Swedish Diplomat

Science, Being

"I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot."

Peter Forsberg, Swedish Athlete

War, Losing, Practice

"A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story."

Eyvind Johnson, Swedish Author

Life, Work, Writer

"It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly."

Stellan Skarsgard, Swedish Actor

Time, Ugly

"Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance."

Anna Lindh, Swedish Politician

Development, Growth

"The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them."

Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist

Angels, Heaven

"The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability."

Anna Lindh, Swedish Politician

Peace, Actor, Nations, Responsibility

"People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do."

Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish Businessman

People, Mind

"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

Death, Life, Goal, Body

"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."

Ingmar Bergman, Swedish Director

Art, Music, Feelings, Dream

"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

Happiness, Maturity, Play

"I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists."

Lennart Nilsson, Swedish Photographer

Friendship, Countries, Friends, Scientists, States

"It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in."

Peter Forsberg, Swedish Athlete

Goal, First

"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me."

Greta Garbo, Swedish Actress

Life, People

"Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game."

Greta Garbo, Swedish Actress

Peace, Being, Direction

"Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

Nothing, Praise

"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course."

Steig Larsson, Swedish Author

Crime, Entertainment, Popular

"Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

People, Idea

"People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me."

August Strindberg, Swedish Dramatist

Life, People, Battle, Joy

"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

History, Destiny, Meaning, Mystery

"That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death."

Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist

Death, Life, Eternity, Man

"The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development."

Anna Lindh, Swedish Politician

Development, Trade

"Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't."

Max von Sydow, Swedish Actor

Life, Being, Christ, Play

"People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular."

Niklas Zennstrom, Swedish Scientist

People, Internet

"If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously."

Stefan Edberg, Swedish Athlete

Confidence,

"I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

Character, Performance, Direction

"I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs."

Hannes Alfven, Swedish Scientist

Work, Physics, Present, Universe

"There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me."

Agnetha Faltskog, Swedish Musician

Music, Time

"I love mixing amateurs and professionals."

Lasse Hallstrom, Swedish Director

Love, Professionals

Quotes by Swedish Authors

"You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all."

1

"From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning."

1

"As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?"

1

"The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations."

1

"The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them."

1

"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."

1

"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."

1

"I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties."

1

"I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can."

1

"In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions."

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"I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious."

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"I can't walk by chocolate without eating it."

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"I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard."

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"Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own."

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"I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside."

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"Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger."

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"In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor."

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"A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them."

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"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."

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"I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot."

​

"A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story."

​

"It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly."

​

"Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance."

​

"The angels taken collectively are called heaven, for they constitute heaven; and yet that which makes heaven in general and in particular is the Divine that goes forth from the Lord and flows into the angels and is received by them."

​

"The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability."

​

"People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do."

​

"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

​

"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."

​

"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."

​

"I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists."

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"I am very proud to follow the rules of our company."

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"Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open."

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"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."

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"It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in."

​

"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me."

​

"Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game."

​

"Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard."

​

"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course."

​

"Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities."

​

"People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me."