National Youth Organisation of the Independence Party (SUS) - Youth group of Samband Ungra Sjálfstæðismanna, Iceland's major center-right party. Overview of history, activities, and positions offered in English; additional content available in Icelandic.
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-- Rory Bremner Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Politics I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Politics
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Politics A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Politics
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed My other wife is beautiful. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Politics Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Politics Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Politics
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Politics I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Politics
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Politics "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Politics
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Politics "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Politics
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Politics He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Politics
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Politics "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Politics
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Politics Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Politics
