Quotes by Swedish authors

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"Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone"

Goran Persson, Politician

"Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game"

Peter Forsberg, Athlete

"And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

Eyvind Johnson

"And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one"

Eyvind Johnson, Author

Eyvind Johnson

"A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so"

Eyvind Johnson, Author

"Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great"

Peter Forsberg, Athlete

"It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up"

Peter Forsberg, Athlete

"It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event"

Peter Forsberg, Athlete

"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, Athlete

"I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me"

Neneh Cherry, Musician

"Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds"

Carolus Linnaeus, Scientist

Ingmar Bergman

"Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying"

Ingmar Bergman, Director

"On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"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, Diplomat

"The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

Ingmar Bergman

"I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images"

Ingmar Bergman, Director

"The world has gotten so interwoven"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"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, Diplomat

"They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights"

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Musician

"And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first"

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Musician

"I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions"

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Musician

"I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden"

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Musician

Astrid Lindgren

"I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren"

Astrid Lindgren, Author

Astrid Lindgren

"I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first"

Astrid Lindgren, Author

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