Skoften Quotes & Sayings

Beautify your thoughts. Thoughts are the headwaters of action, life and manifestation. — David Wolfe

You can either look at the problems you come across as opportunities or concede to being defeated by them. Either way, the choice is yours. — Idowu Koyenikan

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much. — Richard Petty

The songwriting style, to me, is superior ... there was a certain amount of joy in it, no matter how sad the song is. You get joy in listening to these Buddy Holly or Roy Orbison sad lyrics. I'm attracted to songs that have balance between the darks and the lights and giving them all equal opportunity. — M. Ward

The justice system is now just a system. — Bob Enyart

But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. — Herman Melville

Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature," he says. "Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of routine social interaction. A lesser person, " he offers with a wry grin, "Might well become one bitter fuck. — Jonathan Tropper

I grabbed her by the waist and swung her around to face me. As I bent, I closed my eyes ... and kissed air as she ducked out of my grasp. I opened my eyes to see her dancing backward along the path.
I made a noise in my throat.
"Don't growl," she said. "Aren't you always complaining that you don't get enough exercise?"
I lunged. She backed away.
I let out another growl and crossed my arms. "Better watch out. I might decide the prize isn't worth the effort."
She grinned, blue eyes dancing. "Oh, you know it is. And you know it's never as sweet as when you have to work for it."
She wheeled and ran. As I went after her, adrenaline pumped through me, like liquid fire. There was nothing quite like a chase, and one that ended with this reward was the best chase of all. — Kelley Armstrong

The number one sin in this world is not realizing how fortunate you are to be living right this second, to be alive, breathing and seeing. — Richard Stein

the data we see in this chapter shows racism isn't a problem of outliers. It is pervasive. We've seen the same patterns repeated on three different sites, with different users and different experiences: men, women, free, subscription-only, casual, serious, "urban" demographics, and more "mainstream." All told, the research set represents a large chunk of the young adults in this country, and the data uniformly shows non-blacks discount African American profiles. It's not a problem caused by a small cluster of "ugly" black users or by a small group of unreformed racists throwing off an otherwise regular pattern. — Christian Rudder

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening. — Dan Harmon

For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness. — Daisy Goodwin

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive. — Charles W. Leadbeater