Skirtumo Quotes & Sayings

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation. — Pierre Trudeau

Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team. — Fred Wilson

Back in the day, Barry Crump not only had these stories that talked about that kind of rustic personality, but also, he spoke volumes, I guess, of the relationships in the stories that he told in these books. — Rhys Darby

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is. — Rachel Joyce

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years. — Michel De Montaigne

There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture. — Paul Weller

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire. — Mark Akenside

You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books ... 100 books. — Narendra Modi

Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk. — Paulo Coelho

In Britain I focus on my horse riding. I ride everyday no matter what. I have a wonderful trainer called Joe Meyer. He is from New Zealand and competed in the World Games this year. I have been with him for four years and we have a good rapport. — Liz Halliday

In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half. — Haruki Murakami

Today is the greatest
Day I've ever known
Can't live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow's much too long ... — Billy Corgan

Ours is a bourgeois civilization. I am not using this term in its Marxian sense. Chicken! In the vocabularies of modern art and religion it is bourgeois to consider that the universe was made for our safe use and to give us comfort, ease, and support. Light travels at a quarter of a million miles per second so that we can see to comb our hair or read in the paper that ham hocks are cheaper than yesterday. De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse. — Saul Bellow