Skal Quotes & Sayings

Smoking blood, over-filled cemeteries, mothers in tears, - these are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from too heavy a burden, there are mysterious groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. — Victor Hugo

Believing business is easy boosts your self-confidence. — Ehab Atalla

While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true that only Supreme Court justices and schoolchildren are expected to and do take the entire summer off. — John Roberts

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour. — Vladimir Lenin

When the imagination is not controlled and the attention not steadied on the feeling of the wish fulfilled, then no amount of prayer or piety or invocation will produce the desired effect. When you can call up at will whatsoever image you please, when the forms of your imagination are as vivid to you as the forms of nature, you are master of your fate. — Neville Goddard

Ever day is a chance given to better your yesterday and brighten your tomorrow — Beverley Malcolm

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. — Philip Larkin

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death. — Silas Weir Mitchell

In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal. — Leon Uris

Get a life. Have a life. Save a life. — Cole Strider

...Once your heart gets involved, there ain't no way you can turn back. — Kira Saito

Hvad udad tabes, skal indad vindes. (What was lost without will be found within.) — Michael Booth

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life. — Soman Chainani

One of Solstad's regular "connecting" statements in his narrative is: "Vi skal komme tilbakke til . . . " - "We shall come to-back to . . . — John Freeman

Forget everything you know about heroes. — Tommy Zurhellen