Skantzoura Quotes & Sayings

When trying to fathom an immense, intricate system, drawing direct arrows of causality between micro and macro-components is perilous. Which stock caused the crash of '29? Which person triggered the outbreak of World War I? Which word of Poe's "The Rave" suffuses it with an atmosphere of brooding melancholy? (91) — Thomas Lewis

The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas. — Eugene Delacroix

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation? — Ashwin Sanghi

Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal. — Mahatma Gandhi

Then Ged pitied her. She was like a white deer caged, like a white bird wing-clipped, like a silver ring in an old man's finger. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The two people I need to get in touch with, the two people who most need to hear this most horrible news, are not here — Holly Goldberg Sloan

Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you. — Nhat Hanh

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential. — Arsene Wenger

I am not in charge of this House, and never will be. I have no say about who is in and who is out. I do not get to make the rules. Like Job, I was nowhere when God laid the foundations of the earth. I cannot bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion. I do not even know when the mountain goats give birth, much less the ordinances of the heavens. I am a guest here, charged with serving other guests - even those who present themselves as my enemies. I am allowed to resist them, but as long as I trust in one God who made us all, I cannot act as if they are no kin to me. There is only one House. Human beings will either learn to live in it together or we will not survive to hear its sigh of relief when our numbered days are done. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy. — Deborah Day

I wanted to play for the New York Yankees. That was the bottom line. I wanted to be there and play in that new stadium. — Andy Pettitte

The toughest fucking moments in life are the ones where the whole world is a big, fat unkown, where chance has more power to change your fate than you do. It's then that you're gonna want me, Sali, because me, I'm a sure thing. — C.M. Stunich

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized. — G.K. Chesterton

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind. — Beah Richards

Take off your dress. Leave the pumps on. Lie down with your hands above your head, don't move ... oh sweet sugar snaps! — Robin Bielman