Skokos Foundation Quotes & Sayings

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous. — Lillie Langtry

Listen,
listen with your eyes,
and your lips.
Listen with your skin,
and your blood.
Can you hear us,
at the edges? — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it. — Matthew McConaughey

Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother — Hamid Karzai

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Whereas children can learn from their interactions with their parents how to get along in one sort of social hierarchy
that of the family
it is from their interactions with peers that they can best learn how to survive among equals in a wide range of social situations. — Zick Rubin

Not everyone makes the boat, she thought. — Louise Penny

Soon. She knew. Soon he would come visiting. Incarnadine and sweet and sad and broken. Just like her. — Patrick Rothfuss

(The North Korean army had to lower its height requirement from five feet three in the early 1990s because of the stunting of the younger generation.) — Barbara Demick

A golden drop, the third of three, bears the power to set them free.'

~The Prophecy of Myst~ — E.M. McIntyre

A river too pure, yields no fish. — Zen Proverb

A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask. — Gary L. Thomas