Scandinavian Style Quotes

You just hang in there, boy, hang in with that apprenticeship of yours, do you hear me? You are lucky they would even take someone like you. You’re a child of the slums. A ragtag. On top of that, you’re a whining piece of shit. Nobody will ever do anything for you. Do you understand what I’m saying? They’ll let you starve to death, no problem. Nobody is going to cry on your grave.” Poul-Erik’s Mother The Informer by Steen Langstrup

I’m not a big fan of should. I rather make decisions based on want and need.

Better to plan for less, leaving a place wanting more, and maybe even returning at another time.

Someday this war will be over. A new order of the world will appear in its place. The idea of Socialism will prevail. In the future they’ll remember us as heroes.” Thorkild aka ‘Borge’ The Informer by Steen Langstrup

I want to be grateful, and I want to be humble. I want to do my bit to make this world a better place. But I also want to experience it all—devour as much of this life as I possibly can. I want to dress in beautiful things and taste all the gorgeous flavors the world has to offer. I want to dance with the most beautiful man alive, whom I have the luxury to call my own. I want to carefully put on makeup and make my bed neatly every morning, put flowers in my windows and toast the beauty I see. I want to walk down the street feeling like a stunning creature. And I want to nod my head in recognition to all of you other stunning creatures out there. To you who make an effort, who give a damn. To all of you who are grateful and appreciate. And who want to experience it all. This might be shallow—it probably is. I might be shallow—I probably am. But you know what? I’m ok with it.

One possible bright spot is Scandinavian-style Social Democracy, which has undoubtedly produced some of the most significant green breakthroughs in the world, from the visionary urban design of Stockholm, where roughly 74 percent of residents walk, bike, or take public transit to work, to Denmark’s community-controlled wind power revolution. And yet Norway’s late-life emergence as a major oil producer—with majority state-owned Statoil tearing up the Alberta tar sands and gearing up to tap massive reserves in the Arctic—calls into question whether these countries are indeed charting a path away from extractivism.

If your like a powerful modern thriller with an historical core in the Scandinavian style of many separate threads which eventually come together, Purple Killing will grip you. It is my latest book and a companion to Hitler's First Lady, but in a very different style. Set equally in the US and UK.

The state of Vermont is a favorite target of the latte libel. In his best-selling Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks ridicules the city of Burlington in that state as the prototypical “latte town,” a city where “Beverly Hills income levels” meet a Scandinavian-style social consciousness.

people who would furnish their home with the bleak minimalist style of a Scandinavian detective novel.

Part 1 - The reason behind my unstoppable anger has very and highly complicated reasons. 1) There are certain people that takes life as easiest way - for example Norway, Iceland and Scandinavian people, but they also have problems in life yet they prefer to be happy whatever happens and their life style and law made in order to keep them happy. 2) There are people with high diplomacy and prestige - UK people - They are not good but they are very intelligent enough to keep their traditions protected. 3) There are people that are good by heart but bad by attitude - Hitler, even Putin too, 4) There are people that do not even have proper static law but only dynamic law only intention of protecting their own country alone - USA, 5) There are people that were affected by geopolitics and turned against it because of lack of education and morality - Whomever does terrorism 6) There are people that are deeply hurt because of ignorance and untouchability in ancient times ( They adopted unique food and life style - because of evolutionary, pandemic and many other ecological and spiritual reasons) 0 - Asiatic 7) There are people that were only been slaves for heavy work, slaves for sex, slaves for all dirty and isolated works (African black people and all remaining indigenous people) 8) And finally Bharat (India) with lots of hopes, lots of colors, lots of history, lots of memory, India is a land of discrimination yes - But if you have good qualities - even if you are poor, you will be respected here, so even if you are so called Dalit or Scheduled groups you need not worry much about it, you have all your rights to live in your way but if you choose good path, you will be respected else not and even you can be punished easily. All religions are given equal importance here but due to this is the time to strengthen indias cultural values, it is important to protect the factors that represents India.

... This style of interior design that developed during the 1940s and 1950s has been understood as a specifically Swedish form of modernism, later called ‘Swedish Modern’, and clearly associated with the broader concept of ‘Scandinavian Design

We all deserve this zone, where we can take a creative nap and lick the wounds that the outside world has given us. And, once healed, we’ll slowly get ready for that next push outside - where greatness awaits.

Most important, I need David to feel at home. [...] Because as it turns out, home isn't a certain place. Home isn't even where I hang my hat. Home is wherever I'm hanging out with David.

It’s a strange things, insecurities - how often the features you initially hate about yourself (because they make you stand out) end up being the ones you fall in love with and appreciate the most (because they make you stand out). I am tall, I am pale, my ears stick out, and my limbs are freakishly long. All things that I used to find ugly, but now love about myself. Other things, I still find ugly (cellulite, I’m talking to you). But who knows, perhaps with age I’ll find even my cellulite and wobbly knees charming. If there’s one thing that seems to only grow stronger with age, it’s acceptance. The embrace of your quirks and imperfections, because they are the things that make you.

Sooner or later, everything comes to London. Just stay put and you’ll be able to see the world, all while staying within the city limits.

I’m learning not to care about being good at everything at once. It’s a freeing feeling, being ok with my imperfections. I’m not the most ethical, educated, zen, athletic, minimalistic, well-dressed person out there. Nor do I strive to be. I’m good with putting a kind of instead of a most in front of all those adjectives.

To my surprise though, I’ve started to get better at handling the slowness of things. I don’t know why that is, but I’m suspecting that it has to do with me being ever more content with where I’m at for each year that passes. (…) Trust the process, Bro.

Life as a duck [...] "You can run, but just a little. You can fly, but just a little. And you can swim, but just a little." This friend of mine is Thai, and, apparently, calling someone a duck in Thailand is not exactly meant as a compliment. [...] Calling me a duck was her way of saying that I'm the opposite of an expert; I'm an odd-job person. I know a little about a lot, not a lot about a little. In conclusion, I'm a duck. [...] I'm happy to run, fly and swim. Even if it's just a little.

the luxuries my privileged life brings me in solidarity with everyone out there who is having a hard time? I used to think so. I used to feel so bad about all the wrongs in this world that I couldn’t enjoy the rights. The beauty. The loveliness. The shallow superficialities that make my life pleasant. It made me miserable, it made me feel guilty about how lucky I was. The misery and guilt I experienced though—did it make life better for anyone else? I now think that not enjoying the good things that come my way would be inexcusable ungratefulness. This makes sense to me because whenever I, myself, have been through a rough patch, I get so confused by people who have succeeded in reaching their goals, but are unable to enjoy it for fear of seeming stuck up, spoiled, or full of themselves. What’s the point of working your ass off to make something out of yourself, if you’re then not allowing yourself to enjoy it? I want to be grateful, and I want to be humble. I want to do my bit to make this world a better place. But I also want to experience it all—devour as much of this life as I possibly can. I want to dress in beautiful things and taste all the gorgeous flavors the world has to offer. I want to dance with the most beautiful man alive, whom I have the luxury to call my own. I want to carefully put on makeup and make my bed neatly every morning, put flowers in my windows and toast the beauty I see. I want to walk down the street feeling like a stunning creature. And I want to nod my head in recognition to all of you other stunning creatures out there. To you who make an effort, who give a damn. To all of you who are grateful and appreciate. And who want to experience it all. This might be shallow—it probably is. I might be shallow—I probably am. But you know what? I’m ok with it.