Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 12 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man book by Jonas Jonasson. I hope you will like them too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man Quotes
- Yes, things look dark right now, my friend. But they’ve been dark before in my life, yet here I am. You’ll see, the wind will change. Or something.
- Congo is the second-largest country in Africa and has always been rich in two particular things: natural resources and misery.
- The Russians were masters of double dealing. They might vote for sanctions against North Korea on Monday, half promise a centrifuge on Tuesday – and offer up valuable uranium contacts before the week was out.
- History showed that countries that couldn’t bite back were devoured.
- A lot could be said about the Swiss. They were, to be sure, detestable capitalists, like just about everyone else, and a bit more so than almost everyone else. And they worshipped their bloody Schweizerfranc. As if it had anything the North Korean won didn’t. But in addition they were always on time, as if they all had Swiss clocks surgically installed in their heads. And they succeeded in every undertaking.
- Any charlatan worth his salt radiates a level of confidence that’s hard to defend oneself against.
- On occasion, people function such that they hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe.
- People preferred to worry about things to come, as opposed to what had been or, in this case, was utterly ongoing.
- Nations are like the Siberian tiger: a wounded one can be lethal.
- If you wanted to climb in the ranks, you had to be where the action was, when the action was.
- We only live once. That’s the only certainty in life. How long, though – that varies.
- On the whole, the world was a better place than it had been a hundred years earlier, even if progress didn’t seem to happen in a straight line. It went up and down in cycles. As far as Allan could tell, it was currently on the way down. The risk was that it wouldn’t turn up again before a sufficient number of people, for a sufficient amount of time, did sufficiently awful things to each other. After that people would start thinking again. It had always been this way. But was it so very certain that it would be this way again?