Skarpina Quotes & Sayings

The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them. — Erik Erikson

We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me. — C.S. Lewis

Reservation should be under 'Bartlett.' Right, that's two T's. Yes. 'Bart-let-et.' — John Bartlett

A relationship without trust is like a car without gas..
you can stay in it all you want, but it won't go anywhere ... — Michael J Herbert

If your personality is negative, it means that you do not have the confidence in God and in yourself that is your birthright. — Norman W. Walker

If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus. — Donald Miller

It takes time to believe again — Vikki Wakefield

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery. — OMI

Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results. — Joshua L. Goldberg

No one could recall who he was or what he had looked like, least of all Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren, who remembered only that a new officer had shown up at the operations tent just in time to be killed and who colored uneasily every time the matter of the dead man in Yossarian's tent was mentioned. The only one who might have seen Mudd, the men in the same plane, had all been blown to bits with him. Yossarian, on the other hand, knew exactly who Mudd was. Mudd was the unknown soldier who had never had a chance, for that was the only thing anyone ever did know about all the unknown soldiers - they never had a chance. They had to be dead. — Joseph Heller

How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity. — Pierre Coffin

She read about people she could never be and adventures she would never have — Anonymous