Skapadalur Quotes & Sayings

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery. — Seneca The Younger

My grandmother is still a woman who worries about what she looks like when she goes outside. She's from that era, and I can remember saying to her, 'Grandmother, we're just going to the grocery store.' And she'd be like, 'I've got to fix my face!' You were very aware of how you were presenting yourself to society in 1960s Las Vegas. — Vinessa Shaw

Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one! I'd be too scared' - accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice - is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I'd think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I've never heard of a ghost hurting anybody. — Dick Cavett

Along with filters on computers and a lock on affections, remember that the only real control in life is self-control. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect. — Shawn Johnson

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours. — Henry A. Kissinger

Theological discourses function in various ways as sites of contestation and resistance, of forming new religious and personal identities, and of building solidarities. Theological discourses that theologians produce, disseminate, and teach in academia are not simply objective interpretations and neutral reflections on the world and the church in it. Instead theological discourses are productions of and for the world and the church that we live in — Namsoon Kang

Having love means not losing the light.And what love!Love entirely pure.Blindness does not exist where there is certainty.The soul gropes for another soul-and finds it.And this soul found and tried and tested is a woman.A hand supports you,it is hers;lips brush your forehead,hers;you hear breathing right next to you,it is her breathing.To have all of her,from her devotion to her sympathy,never to be abandoned,to have that sweet frailty that succours you,to lean on such an unshakable reed,to touch Providence with your own hands and hold it in your arms. — Victor Hugo

Without real exchange, you can't create knowledge. — Ikujiro Nonaka

My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid. — Seann William Scott

Everyone plays a role and no one says what's truly on their mind. — Richard Ramirez

Whenever he required a small burst of fireworks to his heart, he would remove the folder from the bedside drawer and look at the contents while enjoying a beer or seven. — Maggie Stiefvater

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men fall. It's but time and method that differ. — Ashur