Scikit Quotes & Sayings

No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a debt of gratitude is owed, a debt impossible to pay. Now, we do not owe gratitude to ourselves. To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift. — Josef Pieper

When, in short, we shall have unlearned everything which has been taught since his [Jesus'] day, and got back to the pure and simple doctrines he inculcated, we shall then be truly and worthily his disciples: and my opinion is that if nothing had ever been added to what flowed purely from his lips, the whole world would at this day have been Christian. — Thomas Jefferson

Doing multiple character work is athletic in every way - vocally, physically, spiritually, and mentally. With a show like 'Passing Strange,' I usually lose about 12 pounds. — Colman Domingo

My fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators, could write a perfect bill. Those of us who have grown up and matured ... understand that we have to work together on the big issues. — Newt Gingrich

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization. — Mary Kay Ash

I knew that sometimes when people spoke, it wasn't because they had something important to say. It was because they had a powerful need for someone to listen. — Jodi Picoult

When we are heavy-laden in our hearts, it falls in better with our humor to reveal our case in our own way and our own time. — Elizabeth Gaskell

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. — Dorothy Rowe