Skidelsky Associates Quotes & Sayings

My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed surfers. These guys are the best. You see guys dressed as full Afghans, but then wearing a Yankees hat. — Robin Williams

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.
(Declaration of Sentiments, Boston Peace Conference (28 September 1838)) — William Lloyd Garrison

It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient. — Moms Mabley

Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them! — Mike Milbury

That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body — Aristotle.

Rowan lifted his eyebrows. Are you all right?
She nodded. I just want to get through these two days and be done with it.
"That will never stop being strange," Aedion muttered.
"Deal with it," she told him, carrying the suit into the bedroom. "Let's go hunt ourselves a pretty little demon. — Sarah J. Maas

People get very creative if you include them. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Not every moment has to happen. — Maggie Thrash

Growing up in Florida, it rained a lot, so we spent a lot of time indoors. I used to love Frogger. I got a lot of use out of that and Ms. Pac-man on my little Atari. — Jennifer Sky

Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you. — John Wooden

How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! 25 For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God. — Anonymous

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done. — Brandon Boyd

Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible. — Italo Calvino

To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. — Janet Coleman