Skeffingtons Quotes & Sayings

I am an African and I am very proud of that. — Fatou Bensouda

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase. — Ron Perlman

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution. — Bill Vaughan

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry. — Edward Hirsch

There is a simple rule we can follow to guide us in our conversation: If it is good, uplifting, wholesome, and pleasant, say all you want to, but if it is evil, negative, critical, and complaining, then don't say it. Ask God to change your heart so there is not even a hint of wanting to say it. What is in our heart will eventually come out of our mouth, so we cannot change what we say unless we change what we think. — Joyce Meyer

One of the greatest challenges for all of us is to learn how to live in the world without participating in all that it offers. Worldly standards will always be in a state of flux. The only true and unchanging standards are those set by the Savior and His teachings of the restored gospel. — Donald L. Staheli

Love isn't what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give. — Lysa TerKeurst

It was true that Al had asked her to move the jars and magazines, and there was probably a word for the way she'd stepped around those jars and magazines for the last eleven days, often nearly stumbling on them; maybe a psychiatric word with many syllables or maybe a simple word like "spite." But it seemed to her that he'd asked her to do more than "one thing" while he was gone. He'd also asked her to make the boys three meals a day, and clothe them and read to them and nurse them in sickness, and scrub the kitchen floor and wash the sheets and iron his shirts, and do it all without a husband's kisses or kind words. If she tried to get credit for these labors of hers, however, Al simply asked her whose labors had paid for the house and food and linens? Never mind that his work so satisfied him that he didn't need her love, while her chores so bored her that she needed his love doubly. In any rational accounting, his work canceled her work. — Jonathan Franzen

All unique and unrepeatable, like cloud-shadows on mountains or flames in a fire. — Alison Allen-Gray

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

A dark-haired man with electric-blue eyes hadn't taken his eyes off Caro since she'd sat down. He watched her like, well, a predatory wolf watched his mate.
Caro glanced over her shoulder and when she turned to face Nissa her expression was dark.
"Uh oh. "I'm sorry. Is mate the wrong word? I'm still not sure of all the correct --"
She shook her head and placed a gentle hand on hers. "I'm sorry, it's not that. No, he's not my mate. He's a very persistent... Never mind. I'm actually unmated. — Savannah Stuart

Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand! — Marcus Garvey

I must honor those who fight of their own free will, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me. — Christopher Isherwood

Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen. — Bob Goff

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper. — Henry Rollins