L Skmaskin Quotes & Sayings

Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,
never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted. — Ray Winstone

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right. — Joe Manganiello

People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don't do that. — Laura Marling

(1990) A serial killer is strangling — This Fangirl

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished. — Neil Gaiman

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. — Margaret Clarkson

The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up. — Paul Evdokimov

Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Joanne Woodward's Mrs. Bridge is one of the best performances ever given on film of a middle-aged woman. — Jeanine Basinger

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life. — Meg Wolitzer

You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost never prove something to someone who has financial or ideological reasons to not see it proven. — Derrick Jensen

There," I say.
"No," says Elizabeth, following my gaze. "That is not where you're headed. I think the race is dangerous enough without that, don't you? This way. — Maggie Stiefvater

A great country ought not to make little wars. — Duke Of Wellington