"Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth century AD. Today's Icelanders, with considerable effort, can understand people from the Scandinavian peninsula, but the Scandinavians hardly understand the Icelanders. A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible."

-- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

#Years Quotes #Iceland Quotes #People Quotes

“We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.”
“There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.”
“I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.”
“He who is less than just is less than man.”

Source : John Howard Griffin (2006). “Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition”, p.49, Wings Press
“Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.”
“This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.”
“I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.”

Source : "Life Unexpected's Kristoffer Polaha & Emma Caulfield Dish on Everyone's Fave: Love Triangles!". Interview with Kristoffer Polaha, www.eonline.com. November 30, 2010.
“If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.”

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