Skatemasters Quotes & Sayings

Science is organised knowledge. — Herbert Spencer

If you stop exercising - which I did - and if you stop watching your caloric intake - which I did - you're gonna get fat. — Kirstie Alley

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job. — Eleanor Roosevelt

And so we gain hope - not from the darkness of our suffering, not from pat answers in books, but from the God who sees our suffering and shares our pain. — Eugene H. Peterson

I had always liked him, but it never occurred to me to like him, like him. — Maureen Johnson

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. — Ivan Turgenev

She loved him for his own sake, and therefore she would rather have suffered his absence if he flourished than to have enjoyed his presence if he languished; her sorrow over his avoidable languishing would overshadow her delight in his presence. For a lover, it is more blessed to give than to receive, even when giving pierces the lover's heart. — Miroslav Volf

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. — Alva Myrdal

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival. — Norbert Wiener

Was it always the desirable ones that sat in silence, and the misshapen rejects that prattled away unprompted? — Michel Faber

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them. — Beverly Cleary

I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about our country that we had back-to-back African-American Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and then me. I also thought it said a lot about President Bush that he didn't see limits on the highest ranking diplomat in terms of color. It's a hard job, but really the best one in government. — Condoleezza Rice

What if God doesn't keep his promises? — K. Howard Joslin

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. — Gaston Bachelard